paul haresnape
08-19-2004, 02:48 PM
I've a basic ad hoc WLAN using a Dell PC XP Home and a Dell laptop XP Pro. The laptop has a built in WNIC and the PC has a Qtec PCI WNIC. Both machines run Norton IS and AV. I had a pig of a job setting it up until I dumped NIS and NAV. I reinstalled, and put static IPs in the trusted zone, it has run fine, for file sharing. Now had ADSL installed the ISP, supplied an Efficient EN5861.
The PC now has a NIC ---> EN5861 Router
and a WNIC <---> laptop WNIC.
I specified the IPs for both WNICs.
I've not touched DHCP.
I setup ICS and worked OK, but this screwed file sharing.
I think IPs must now be got dynamically. If the router is a DHCP server and so are each of the PCs, which should I disable? I've only seen a DHCP *client* entry in services list on both pcs. Is that what I disable? I've tried to put it back as it was, but now file sharing does not work. Pinging each other using the static IPs that I've retyped in produces no response.
Help
Paul
The PC now has a NIC ---> EN5861 Router
and a WNIC <---> laptop WNIC.
I specified the IPs for both WNICs.
I've not touched DHCP.
I setup ICS and worked OK, but this screwed file sharing.
I think IPs must now be got dynamically. If the router is a DHCP server and so are each of the PCs, which should I disable? I've only seen a DHCP *client* entry in services list on both pcs. Is that what I disable? I've tried to put it back as it was, but now file sharing does not work. Pinging each other using the static IPs that I've retyped in produces no response.
Help
Paul