Help on sharing internet connection using WinGate 5.2.2

Feb 05 04 9:25 am

Hi there,

I want to share the internet connection of my Windows 2000 server with a Windows XP notebook. I installed WinGate 5.2 on the Windows 2003 server but it seems that I still cannot connect to the internet on the Windows XP client. Whenever I try to connect to the web from the client, I notice there is an activity logged on the WinGate Server. However, I can only get the "HTTP 404 - File Not Found" response from the client side. I made sure the proxy setting on the client side has already been changed correspondingly.

I tried to ping the Wingate server and a positive response is returned. Also for pinging the client from the server side, a positive response is returned as well.

Afterwards, I installed the WinGate Internet Client on my XP client. It does not help either. I noticed that activity logged on the Wingate server was changed to something like "WRP COntrol Session - ielpore.exe".

I wonder what mistakes I made and what changes on the configuration I should make further. Please kindly tell me the way to fix it if you have any idea of this. Thanks a lot.

My configuration:

1. WinGate Server 5.2 on Windows 2000 Server

WWW Proxy Server Settings

Port: 8080
Bindings: interfaces connections will be accepted on 127.0.0.1 and 169.254.219.86
Interfaces: connections out on all from 62.23.X.X and 127.0.0.1
Non-proxy Requests: Reject request
Policies: Right (Users can access this service) Is granted to Everyone with Unrestricted rights.

DHCP Services Settings

NIC IP: 169.254.219.86
IP Ranges: 169.254.219.100 to 16.254.219.254
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

2. Wingate Clinet

NIC Settings:

IP Address: 169.254.219.100
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 169.254.219.86

IE Settings:

Proxy Server Address: 169.254.219.86 Port: 8080

Feb 05 04 3:20 pm

Hi,

The IP address 169.254.*.* is the Microsoft default address, when the Network card is not assigned an IP address the Operating System assigns this one.

It looks like you have two NICs on the server, the 62.23.x.x should be your external connection and you can leave this alone. The internal connection can be set manually or dynamically, if you only have the one client you're probably better off setting it manually.

We recommend using the address range 192.168.0.* for your internal subnet, WinGate will see this as a private, trusted address. Please try this and report back.

Feb 05 04 6:35 pm

Hi, MattP

Thanks for your reply. After changing my internal NIC's IP address back to 192.168.0.1, it does not make any change. When I try to connect to the internet using the client machine, the brower still resposnse the "HTTP 404 - File Not Found" error. I have already disabled the both WinGate firewall and the WINS service but it seems that they made no use.

Also, whenever an internet connection is attempted, I notice the GateKeeper records something in history. They are as follows:

Time Computer Username WG Username IP Address Application Activity Duation Bytes In Bytes Out

05-Feb 13:28:40 SCG0205 <empty> Guest 192.168.0.101 N/A http://www.goole.com 0 sec 34 34

The Route Table for the client is as follows:

Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.101 10
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.101 10
192.168.0.101 255.255.255.255 127.0.01 127.0.0.1 10
192.168.2.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.101 10
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.101 10
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.101 1
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1

Persistent Routes:

By the way, if I turn off the "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" on both my 2000 server and XP client, is it still possible for me to browse these computers in the workgroup? Many thanks.