Hi, I have a problem with the ICS host not giving out DHCP addresses. My XP machine has a DSL modem connected to it. I enabled ICS and plugged a client machine into the spare ethernet port on the XP machine. Everything worked! The client machine was able to access the net. I think decided to share a drive. In the properties tab there was no option for sharing but there was a link to run a wizard. The sharing wizard exited with an error. My client dropped off the network but now there was a tab for sharing on the drive i was trying to share. The problem now is that the client can not get an IP address of the XP machine. I have disabled and re-enabled ICS many times with no joy. If I set an IP manually on the client i can ming the ICS host but internet won't work ???? No matter what I try the client machine now won't get a DHCP address from the ICS host. What do I do ? thanks Mike

Did you restart your pc's. Turn them both off and then start ics computer first. If that doesn't work try giving client machine an address of 192.168.0.3-192.168.0.254 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and restart the client machine.

schmik: best way is to use a router, see: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/39/index3a_page4.html?tw=backend