Problem with Wingate 6.04 & Internet Connection Sharing

[DealResearcher]

I have a network of two PCs that are connected by a crossover cable. Both are running on Window XP Pro. I use AOL dial-up Internet on one of them and would like to share the connection with the other machine. Windows does not allow me to share an AOL connection (don't get me started why) so I had to resort to Wingate. The sole purpose of my using Wingate is to share the Internet connection with another machine.

The server (the one with the dial-up connection) is 192.168.0.1 and the client is 192.168.0.2. Wingate server 6.04 was installed on the server and Wingate Internet Client installed on the client machine. The network works fine -I can see each other's file and also see replies from the ping command under a cmd window. Problem is, I just can't access the Internet from the client machine now matter how. I have tried different configurations, rebooting, disconnect/reconnect. None works.

The server machine can access the Internet just fine. Everything works, email, browser, messenger, etc. But whenever I tried to access the Internet from the client machine, I see a Wingate Dialup Monitor on the system tray of the client machine saying "Connected to the Internet", duration, bytes sent and received etc., and on the Server machine's GateKeeper, I see a "WRP Control Session" for iexplorer.exe or RealPlay.exe for example from the client machine. But the client machine just can't access the Internet. A ping command to an Internet IP address returns "host unreachable" error message.

Not sure what I am doing wrong. My "Network" tab in GateKeeper reads the following:

Local Area Connection ---- LAN or High Speed Internet ---- Enabled ---- Internal
1394 Connection ---- LAN or High Speed Internet ---- Enabled ---- Internal
Incoming Connections ---- Incoming ---- Connected ---- External

[DealResearcher]

Or can anybody tell me how to diagnose where the problem might be under such circumstances?

[jamesc]

Hi there.

If you cannot access http://www.google.com from the client PC (192.168.0.2) but can access googles IP address http://64.233.187.104 ... then you have a DNS problem.

What you require to do to resolve this is add in 192.168.0.1 as the DNS server for the client PC (in the network cards TCP/IP properties). (windows) Start menu --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Network Connections --> Local Area Connections --> Properties --> TCP/IP ... and add in the DNS server.

Let us know how you go.

[DealResearcher]

Works like a charm. You are my angel. Thanks. :-)