can't load DHCP on ICS host

[Arkanabar]

I have a 2 machine network, both running ME. I recently had to reinstall windows on the Internet Connection Sharing host, and while I was working my way through this, I set up the ICS client to use its modem to connect, thinking I could easily reconfigure it back into an ICS client.

I was wrong.

I've been grinding at this problem for most of a week, and this is how things stand:

I have no trouble setting up the LAN so that each machine can talk to the other. I've uninstalled and reinstalled most or all of the communications components of Windows setup, and blown and reinstalled the network configuration stack a bunch of times. Currently, the host connects without any trouble, but the client can only ping IP addresses on the Internet -- no domain names, no other connectivity.

The Me help system on the client is not able to detect a DHCP server on the host, in spite of our doing what it said we should to make sure that the DHCP server does run on the host. Running winipcfg on the host, it does not show anything for DHCP on the host's NIC.

Furthermore, in spite of manually setting the client's default gateway to the IP address of the NIC on the host, the help system believes that the default gateway is not properly set.

We tried running AnalogX Proxy on the host as a replacement for ICS, but there is even less connectivity that way -- with Proxy, the client is not able to ping IP addresses on the internet, as it can with ICS.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would very much appreciate it.

 

[bcastner]

. Run this utility on both host and client: faq779-4625
. See Steve Winograd's warnings and notes:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/icsmeinstall.htm

 

[DgtlLgk]

well as far as i know u must indicate the client which is the one that provides the internet right?so u must tell it who is the gateway 192.168.0.1 by default on an ICS connection.so why dont u try to set also a static ip on ics client at same range???also if u do an ipconfig u should get an ip at the range of 169.254.x.y. if is not on a dhcp srv.if not something with ur net card

 

[Arkanabar]

We've tried running this network with both dynamically assigned and fixed IP addresses. They work the same. Carefully uninstalling and reinstalling everything in Communications and Network on the ICS host enabled domain name pings on the ICS client, but no other connectivity. Microsoft's knowledge base suggested it was a winsock problem. The solution involved tinkering with the registries, which has put us back at square one.