Hi Dave, Yes move the second network onto the 192.168.2.x subnet, then that will give room for ICS to use 192.168.0.x. As far as I remember, that IP range in ICS is no negociable. Ad-hoc wifi means setting up wifi using two wifi cards, unlike the system that uses access points. I only did it once and it took ages, I had to use the wifi client by the nic manufacturer and not the builtin one in Windows. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Dave [mailto:dave.mehler@gmail.com] Sent: 12 August 2009 16:38 To: Andrew Hodgson Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] networking issue Hi, Ok, my dsl modem is on 192.168.1.x actually .254, if i move the 192.168.0.x clients to 192.168.2.x and set up ICS on the xp box in question it'll set to 192.168.0.x will that work? Second thing, where is internet connection sharing? My brain mushed out and i can't remember where it is. Ad-hoc WiFi issues, is that like the wireless network not being immediately available on system boot, takes a minute, i know about that one, i tried to set up a map network drive script it kept failing since the network wasn't up at the time. Thanks. Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson [mailto:andrew@hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:34 AM To: dave.mehler@gmail.com; Blind sysadmins list Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] networking issue Hi, Windows will by default only allow one default gateway. It will be possible to use Internet Connection sharing, though you will have to reset the IP address on the router to anything apart from 192.168.0.x, because that is what the ICS software will assign by default. You will also have to deal with ad-hoc wifi issues. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: 11 August 2009 04:50 To: Dave Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] networking issue Hello everyone, I haven't googled this one yet, that's next after i hit send, i'm wondering if any of you have seen this one. I've got DSL with a dsl modem and a wireless router. I've got one machine that's far enough away so that running a wire isn't practical, hence the reason the wireless router, and a second machine even further away. Both of these machines are within wireless range. The machine that's closer to the wireless router has two nics in it, the wireless one which connects up to the network and a regular rj45 internal. I had the thought that i could assign the wired nic a static ip then use network connection sharing to allow the computer further away to share the machine's internet connection. The two computers are connected by a switch. My problem is that whenever the wired card is up, meaning it has an ip, the wireless card won't see the gateway, which is 192.168.0.1, take out the cable and refresh the dhcp lease on the wireless card and the gateway once again returns. The wireless card has an address on the 192.168.0.x range and i'm statically assigning the wired nic an address on that subnet though outside the dhcp server's lease. Both machines are running xp pro. This might or might not be related to this issue, more than likely it's a symptom of the same issue. I want to map network drives on startup, so i loaded in a drive mapping script in the system's user configuration section of the local profile. A wired nic it would have worked, since it's going wireless i am getting the error "No network provider was able to validate the path". Any suggestions. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins