- Feb 21, 2014
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I have a Vista host that plugs into my router. I have two other older machines that I do not want to plug into my router. Having them go through the Vista machine ads an additional layer of security beyond connecting them straight to the net. Besides the Vista machine can handle the burden of the full Norton Suite, but it really slows down the older machines. I try to let the Vista machine be the first line of protection when connecting to the internet. I can put Avast! on the slower machines as it is less of a drag on resources even though it may not be as robust as Norton hopefully is.
So, the Vista machine has 2 Nics. One connects to the router. The other feeds to a switch where all 3 computers are wired to. I've tried over and over to set up ICS to no avail.
If I set the two XP clients to automatically get a network address for the TCP stuff they can't establish network connection. If I set them to static IPs, they can see each other and file share, but I still can't see the Vista host on the network regardless of if the Vista host is configured for static IP or automatic IP on the NIC that is for the internal network.
Problem 1) So, I can't even get the three machines to talk nicely through the switch and file share.
Problem 2) The only way ANY OF THE COMPUTERS see each other is when I assign static IPs on the XP machines, but the instructions for ICS say you HAVE TO use automatically assigned IPs for ICS to work.
So, I can't get the network talking AND I can't get ICS running.
I have run search after search on how to do this and haven't found any posting that get my stuff working.
Yes, I could plug all machines straight into the router, but as I already pointed out, that isn't what I want to do. Sure, it would be easier, but there MUST BE a way to get things working the way I want them to. I used to do it when the host was also XP, but when I replaced it with a Vista machine things went to poo.
So, the Vista machine has 2 Nics. One connects to the router. The other feeds to a switch where all 3 computers are wired to. I've tried over and over to set up ICS to no avail.
If I set the two XP clients to automatically get a network address for the TCP stuff they can't establish network connection. If I set them to static IPs, they can see each other and file share, but I still can't see the Vista host on the network regardless of if the Vista host is configured for static IP or automatic IP on the NIC that is for the internal network.
Problem 1) So, I can't even get the three machines to talk nicely through the switch and file share.
Problem 2) The only way ANY OF THE COMPUTERS see each other is when I assign static IPs on the XP machines, but the instructions for ICS say you HAVE TO use automatically assigned IPs for ICS to work.
So, I can't get the network talking AND I can't get ICS running.
I have run search after search on how to do this and haven't found any posting that get my stuff working.
Yes, I could plug all machines straight into the router, but as I already pointed out, that isn't what I want to do. Sure, it would be easier, but there MUST BE a way to get things working the way I want them to. I used to do it when the host was also XP, but when I replaced it with a Vista machine things went to poo.
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