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Hi,

I have a 2 node LAN at home. Server is W2K Server with 2 LAN cards, one for cable modem, second for LAN. Client is XP with just the one LAN card. When I have fixed IP address on the XP client all is well and I have network visibility and can map network drives &c.

Setting up Internet Connection sharing on the server machine though requires the client to use DHCP. Changing my client to use DHCP seems to break my ability to map network drives (on the client [XP] I want to map drives from the server [2K]). Internet Connection Sharing works fine though so the network is working, but I can't map network drives.

I'm thinking now that it might be because of my firewall on the W2K server, but I haven't investigated that yet.

Any words of wisdom of what else to check?

TIA

Sos

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When you set up ICS, is the server machine in the same subnet as the client? Can you ping the server machine from the client?

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Yup - pinging is fine in both directions.

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whats the ip of the xp box? could be that its picking it up from the isp rather than the 2k box, you did setup dhcp on the 2k box?

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Excellent question, but no I think that's OK too. IP address of the XP box is 192.168.0.2 at the moment. That happens to be what I set it to be when I have it configured for fixed IP address, but right now its set for dynamic IP allocation via DHCP. Its probably a lease thing that means I've still got the same address as last time.

I believe I've set up the 2K box properly for DHCP, but maybe I haven't. What do I need to have set here?

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You would know if you had setup 2k server as a dhcp server!
What I would do with just the 2 pc's, is set the ip's manually for the internal lan, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2, as you have done, I didnt realise ICS needed dhcp? mind I've only used it on 98/me and never came accross it. Anyway, to setup 2k server as a dhcp server, go to computer managemant, then to the DHCP snap in, right click SCOPE and chose NEW SCOPE, follow it through, its quite easy, it will ask for a range of ip's, in your case 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 would be enough!, but set these to what you feel fit. It will ask for dns and gateway details, these will need to be the same as the ones your isp issues, to find these, on the 2k box, open a dos window and type ipconfig /all. Pnce done, reboot the xp box (might get away with ipconfig /renew) and check by ipconfig /all that it has picked up the correct details.

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