Crossover Connection OK But no Internet Sharing Me to XP

[nawabasif]

Hi I have a Win Me Computer hooked up to NTL Broadband and I also have a Windows XP home Laptop. I set up a small or home network on the laptop and make a network disk to set up on the desktop (ME). It works and zonealarm pro firewall detects this and allows the network to be trusted.

I can communicate properly between the two pcs and share files. But what I cannot do is use the internet on the laptop. I have tried setting up the network on the ME and using the settings on xp, but when i stick the floppy in the laptop from the ME, it doesnt read the floppy well enough. It just makes funny sounds on and on.

I was wondering if i need to enable internet connection sharing on the ME to share the connection without changing the ip addresses of any of the PCs.

I dont have my windows me cd to install ics from add/remove progs so is there another way of enabling it?

I will add more posts if i come across any solutions or any more symptoms.

Thanks

 

[mattjurado]

So is ICS running on either machine?
Have you considered just purchasing a hardware router with mulitple ports?

Matt J.

Please always take the time to backup any and all data before performing any actions suggested for ANY problem, regardless of how minor a change it might seem. Also test the backup to make sure it is intact.

 

[nawabasif]

ICS is built in to the xp machine i believe as i have read it somewhere on annoyances.org.

When i tried to use a setup disk after i setup ics and home networking on the me and tried to use it on the xo, i got the message that the os had to be any before me to use that setup disk. so the networking disk setup could only happen from xp to me. when i do try to set ics only on the me, it messes up the file sharing on the xp. isnt there a default gateway or any other tweaking i can to to the ip addresses or use dns in the tcp/ip settings?