ICS Vista Host XP Client issues

blovedodge · Post by **blovedodge** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:36 am

I have an alltel usb wireless broadband connection at home connected to my Vista 64 bit computer. I have enabled ICS on this host (network bridge won't work because it is considered a dialup account). The client PCs both have XP Professional running on them and they get an ip address from the ICS host.

They both can see the Vista host and it can see them. From the clients I can ping web addresses. (http://www.yahoo.com) but can not get to web pages. When I bring up the browser it says looking up "web address" it finds it and then says connecting to and then just waits on Waiting for response from server. I have tried IE and Firefox on both computers but I still get nothing.

Any Ideas?

lucifercipher · Post by **lucifercipher** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:46 pm

The reason you can ping yahoo is cuz your DNS is resolving correctly as your are getting DNS server assignment from ICS box. However you are not getting a Gateway definition for some reason ( very common on tiny ICS machines ) . Just assign static IPs and enter DNS IP manually on client PCs and it should be fine.