Internet connection sharing + Incoming connections

Renton

Hey all,

Im havin a problem with ICS,

I am running it between me and my dads pc to share our inet connection,

But when I try to access my PC from the outside world (say a netcafe) using VNC or whatever,
I cant access it. ...

if I disable ICS, it works.

Anyone got any fix to this ?

Thanks

Renton

Supercell

I'd quess that because the ICS puter is acting as a Dhcp server essentially, thats why you cannot connect to it outside of the local network, as it uses the nonroutable class of ip, ie it has an addy of 192.168.0.1 with ics enabled, no matter what static ip addy you gave it earlier. Which means connections from the outside world are bounced right back. My best quess, probably completly wrong though

Renton

that does sound notoriously like whats wrong.... ne idea how to fix it ?

RentZ

sutty

I have the same prob, If I'm on IRC I can recive but not send, I'm d/l win2k server at the mo in the hopes it will alow me to make my own DHCP settings and ICS out from that

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Renton

Well in that case can anyone reccommend an alternative to ICS ?

RentZ

sutty

Yeah find a free Proxy server

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[This message has been edited by sutty (edited 13-07-2001).]

flamegrill

install some flava of *nix and use ipmasqerading.

Jaden

Use Sambar Server.
www.sambar.com

To Use VNC, set up Sambars bridge port service to Port 5902, which is the default VNC port. Disco, you have access.

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Supercell

Sutty, if you get it working in win2ksvr,please post how here, i'd like to do the exact same but havent managed in 2kpro or server. Only way i got it to work was by using proxy 2 which is total overkill in a domestic situation.

Renton

Im using cproxy now

The Cigarette Smoking Man

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Longfield:
I'd quess that because the ICS puter is acting as a Dhcp </font>

No it's not, it's running Network Address Translation (NAT) nothing to do with DHCP.

If your using W2K Professional:
If you right click on the connection in your Network settings then go to the Sharing tab. Down the bottom there's a settings button. Go into the services tab and configure each service you want.

Supercell

Taken from win2k help, search"internet connection sharing"

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">You cannot modify the default configuration of Internet connection sharing. This includes items such as disabling the DHCP allocator or modifying the range of private IP addresses that are distributed, disabling the DNS proxy, configuring a range of public IP addresses, or configuring inbound mappings. If you want to modify any of these items, you must use network address translation</font>

Note.."DHCP allocator"

amp

I tried ICS out of curiousity but I had to rip it out fairly sharpish when it fuxored my little windows 2000 based network. I don't quite understand why M$ has to make the whole thing so damn complicated when proxy and socks servers do it so easily.

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Skeptic1

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Longfield:
Taken from win2k help, search"internet connection sharing"

You cannot modify the default configuration of Internet connection sharing. This includes items such as disabling the DHCP allocator or modifying the range of private IP addresses that are distributed, disabling the DNS proxy, configuring a range of public IP addresses, or configuring inbound mappings. If you want to modify any of these items, you must use network address translation</font>

Note.."DHCP allocator"

I'm a bit confused here. Although it does use DHCP (and insists on it), what method does it use to actually share the connection?

DHCP, AFAIK, is not enough.

Gavin

I'd imagine that uses it dhcp and NAT to do the sharing as people up above have said.

Windows actualy uses dhcp a lot, eg when using direct cable connections, it pulls ip's out of nowhere and uses them on both machines.

Now as to what it does when it encounters a network already configured... i don't know.

I'd imagine it just runs with the ip's already being used.

Gav