Trying to improve my home network. You know if it ain't broke, fix it, well I fixed it alright. Had a phoneline setup that wasn't what we really wanted. Finally ran cat5 and put hub in. Removed the wingate software for the phoneline setup and the cards from the pc's. Installed Netgear ethernet card and software in Host and client pc's. Also activated Internet Connection sharing Software in Win98se on host computer. One client configured fine the other has been a nightmare. Had all kinds of conflicts in it, resolved those, couldn't boot after awhile even in safe mode so I reinstalled win98, without formatting hard drive. I've removed the network card and reinstalled it both physically as well as just through the device manager. It connects to the network and is seen by it. I've used the Internet connection wizard(several times) and even used the ICS disk created by the host upon ICS setup(first time I've ever used it as in the past computers always connected without trouble) but get the following message; can not find server, DNS error. I know it's got to be software configuration problems but I've not found it yet. This is on my daughters computer and she's anxious to get back online. HELP!!!!

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You might ensure that "automatically detect setting" is not checked.

i have an internet sharing program that i can email you. It simply configures everything through a LAN.

Was told that 2000 machines can be done like you tried, but didnt know 98's could.

Aint no computer guy BTW.

I'll send email.

EDIT: Well I might have screwed up. Its a big file, 5400K. It pushed thru my email server, but might not squeeze thru yours. Sorry if I caused you any problems.

[This message has been edited by Gene Chas (edited 11-16-2001).]

I believe that the client disk you make just sets the IE connection to LAN, instead of dial up.

A couple of things to check on the client:

Make sure TCP-IP protocol is installed and bound to the new network card (NIC).

Make sure that the TCP-IP binding for the NIC is set up to automatically get an IP address

You may have to reboot at this point if you made any changes (TIP: if you don't have to make changes, cancel out of the windows instead of clicking OK. More often than not it seems windows will want to reboot even if you haven't changed anything if you click "OK")

If you made any changes, and had to reboot, you may be OK now. If not, go to Start -> Run...-> and type "winipcfg /all". You will see a pull down window that probably has "PPP Adapter" in it. Select your NIC from that window, and see what the IP address is. By default, it will probably start with "192.168.X.XXX". If they are not, click the "Release All" button, then the "Renew All" button. If for somereason you NIC had a long lease on an IP address, this should reset it and let it get a new one from you ICS host.
Hopefully, that will solve your problem.

Just for clarification...Are you attempting to share a dial-up connection through one PC or is it broadband?

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Sorry about that, Dial up. Thanks Pete