PC + Laptop + ICS = Help?

Eye

I Hope this is in the right forum, Mods feel free to move it if you think it would fit better in another area.

Right then, I've been trying to setup my girlfriends pc with ICS so that i can connect my laptop, when i'm there, and we can both have net access.
Both PC and Laptop have Win XP Home SP2 + Updates to last week, no conflicts and up to date drivers for anything i could find.

The PC has Abit AW9D Max Motherboard with 2 onboard NICs
LAN 1 = ZyXEL Prestige 600 series modem (BT broadband)
LAN 2 = Crossover cable linking it to Laptop

Now i have gotten to the stage where PC (Host) is working as normal, internet access is fine and it can see the Laptop (Client) over the network, ping it and share files with it no problem.
On the client i can see the host fine, can ping it and share files too, i can even ping ip addresses but i cannot ping websites or get any access through internet explorer.

I reckon i have something wrong when it comes to the DNS settings just cannot figure out what, have tried all sorts of combinations and most resulted in little or no success until now when i got full network accessability between them but just missing internet on client.

Settings are as follows:

Host:
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LAN1
IP Address 192.168.1.33
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1 (modem)

LAN2
IP Address 192.168.0.1
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.33 ***Not sure if this should even be set or if it's right***
DNS Server 192.168.1.33 ***not sure if this should even be set or if it's right***

Client:
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LAN1
IP Address 192.168.0.2
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.0.1
DNS Server 192.168.0.1

Thing that is confusing me is that, with the PC having 2 NIC's, 1 for modem and the other with laptop connecting to it, I'm wondering what way the gateway and DNS on LAN2 should be set. Should they be pointing towards LAN1, or the Modem or left blank?

Any and all help on this would be greatly appreciated, spent a few hours tonight messing about with it and i'd say it's 95% there just need to get this last bit sorted.

DaSilva

ICS is a bit fiddely aye, Im doing the same thing here, but how I have my settings are a lil different.

You have the IP right for the host anyway, the sharing computer's NIC must have a ip of 192.168.0.1, but I dont have gateway/dns fields filled, they are left blank.

And on the client, all the settings are simply blank and set to automatic.

bricks

4 port 10 Meg switch, plug the cable from the router into it and it will operate the laptop and the desktop. 20 Euros at most.

But in case you want to persist with the internet connection sharing here goes:

I assume you've checked the box enable internet connection sharing on host's LAN1 interface yeah?
The host PC is using the 1st network card for its default gateway and DNS so the entries on the LAN2 card for this are un-needed.
The second PC is setup right since it needs to use 192.168.0.1 as its default gateway and DNS, it can't see the 192.168.1.x network directly.
Incidentally you should be able to set the client PC to obtain IP address and DNS via DHCP since ICS is suposed to setup a DHCP server for you.
From the client PC try pinging 192.168.1.33, this should work, also should be able to ping 192.168.1.1.
You should also disable any personal firewalls or winxp's firewall to rule them out.