Greetings all;

    And thanks to both Tony and David I now have both file-sharing and ICS
working. First, I returned the Subnet mask on the router back to
255.255.255.0 (It seems I was mistaken when I thought it best to change it
so as to not conflict with ICS). Then I disabled DHCP on the router (I had
done this in the past). I then re-ran the Network Setup disc created by the
XP Network Setup Wizard on both Win 98 systems. Success!

    It seems that my mistake was not to have returned the Subnet mask to
255.255.255.0, as well as not having run the Network Setup Wizard again
after having disabled DHCP.

    Thanks again.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gillet"
 - changed the Subnet mask to 255.255.255.1 (and others)

1. This is not a normal mask value.  I believe you want 255.255.255.0.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Mayer" <[log in to unmask]>

> If I had to guess...
> I believe that you may be having a DHCP conflict.  If you have ICS and
> the router both set up to assign IP addresses using DHCP, they may not
> agree with each other.
> Take a look for that...

> Andrea & Bill Lee wrote:
>>     My three computer network (one XP home, two 98SE) is working well
>> (file-sharing, printer-sharing) except for ICS. I am still on a dial-up
>> ISP on the XP system, but the two 98SE systems cannot "see" the ICS. I
>> had ICS working well until I replaced my old hub (it died) with a D-Link
>> DI-604 router in anticipation of two-way Ka-Band satellite access
>> available later this year. Since then I have;
>>
>> - reinstalled operating system on all systems (had planned to anyway)
>> - used the disc created by XP to establish network settings on the 98SE
>> systems
>> - changed the IP of the router to 192.168.0.44 (and others)
>> - changed the Subnet mask to 255.255.255.1 (and others)
>> - upgraded the DI-604 to the latest firmware
>> - played with various others settings

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