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On 2 Oct 2005 at 18:53, Gordon Totty wrote:
> Should both IP Routing and WINS Proxy be not enabled? They are not
> enabled.
Yes, that is correct. Your daughter's machine is not acting as a router,
nor as a proxy for WINS. [The machine that is sharing the connection *is*
acting as a router; WINS is used to support file-sharing on medium-to-large
networks, and a WINS proxy allows machines on a local subnet to talk to a
central WINS server.]
> The only other thing I picked up is that I changed the Internet
> sharing host computer and neglected to set up Internet sharing again.
> So, my daughter's computer thinks the host is my last computer, not my
> current computer. Could that be the source of our difficulty?
A machine that is configured to share its Internet connection will act as
a DHCP server and tell other machines to use it as the gateway. You
shouldn't have connection sharing enabled on more than one device on the
network, but *must* have it on the one you want to use. So yes, this could
be a cause of problems....
David Gillett
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