David Hurst wrote:

> After reinstalling Windows 95 and all the followon updates on a
> single client machine which I want to be able to access the internet
> via my Win 98SE gateway machine; and setting up the TCP/IP protocol
> on both the gateway and client as directed for ICS; and after then
> installing ICS on the gateway machine;  I get an error when starting
> Netscape on the client.
>
> The error is:  Netscape was unable to establish a network socket
> connection. There may be insufficient system resources or the
> network may be down.  Try connecting again later or try restarting
> Netscape.  You can also try restarting Windows.
>
> The network works fine, as does the internet connection from the
> gateway machine.
> Free resources on each machine is about 73%; and restarting Netscape
> and/or Windows had no effect on the error.
>
> Looking for some advice on how to overcome this error and get ICS
> working.  The client is a 200 Mhz Pentium II machine, and the
> gateway is a 800 mhz Athlon connected to the internet via cable
> modem.
>
> Appreciate any help
>
> David Hurst

Open Netscape, go to Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies, check "Direct
Connection to the Internet", or, enter the correct proxy info.


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