CONFIGURE
THE ICS CLIENT
When
we installed ICS on the home or host computer it made an "Internet
Connection Sharing Client Disk." We aren't going to use it.
Most of the time I have tried it, it didn't work correctly. It
insists on configuring Internet Explorer to use a proxy server when
there is no proxy server. Besides, the manual configuration is
quite easy to to do and you will understand it better if there are problems.
Be sure that the ICS host computer is booted-up and connected to the
Internet.
The network was working with NetBEUI. We are at the other computer,
we have installed TCP/IP on it and removed NetBEUI. Its Control
Panel Network Configuration looks something like this. There is
no Dial-Up Adapter and ICS has not (and will not) be installed on the
(client) computer.
Double-click 
to open the TCP/IP Properties window. Type-in the IP address
of the host computer (the other computer) running ICS (ICS assigned
it 192.168.0.1 as shown). Click Add to install the
address as a gateway (you must click the Add button instead of
jumping to the OK button). Click OK to exit the window.
Open your browser (in this example we are using Internet Explorer 5.0).
Wait for minute or so while the two computers on the LAN "talk"
to each other and try refreshing your home page a few times. If
you can connect to the Internet, the client installation for IE has
been completed. If not, open the Internet Options
window as shown.
There shouldn't be any Dial-up settings. Do not use the
Connection Wizard. Click 
at the bottom of the window to open the IE LAN Settings window, below.
It should look exactly like this: nothing checked. If you used
the ICS client floppy, the "Use a proxy server"
box is probably checked. Uncheck it. ICS is a gateway,
not a proxy server.
 You
can locate the proxy setting in Netscape 4.6 by clicking Edit
in the main menu and select Preferences. The settings in
other ICS-supported browsers are similar to the IE 5.0 and Netscape
4.6--just different flavors for doing the same thing. The various
mail and news programs may have similar settings.
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Input.
The following
link describes one way to configure ICS client http://technical.philex.com/networks/win98se/client.htm.
This is one way of doing it, but if you use Netscape you will
have trouble, because Netscape assumes a dial up connection.
The way I got around this is by creating a 'dial up adapter'
on the client. Your network should be as follows: *-Client
for Microsoft Networks *-Dial-Up Adapter *-(your network card)
@-TCP/IP -> Dial-Up Adapter @-TCP/IP -> (your network
card) #-File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks
The dial-up
adapter should be bound to the TCP/IP -> Dial-Up Adapter
TCP/IP
-> Dial-Up Adapter....should be set as a gateway 192.168.0.1
(make sure you ADD it)
TCP/IP
-> (your network card)....should also be set as a gateway
to 192.168.0.1
This might
not be the best way to do it, but for the novice (like me)
it was quite simple and effective. I can now use Netscape
and IE, which is a must if you have a web page and want to
check it from both sides of the fence.
I hope
this helps others, that like me, prefer Netscape but can't
get it to work with ICS. |
Once you have one client working, add one PC at-a-time network, and
configure and test each client as you did this one.
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