Windows 2000 ICS Problems

[Marty]

I'm have a sever running Windows 2000 Professional which is sharing one of its two connections to a 10Mbps network with a Linksys 5 port 10/100 switch, which is attached to two other computers. It works well for a while after starting the server, but without fail, it the share always goes down after a few hours or so. The server is still able to access the Internet, while all computers running off of the switch cannot. Obviously this is causing problems. Any ideas?

Marty

 

[Marty]

ttt...

It happened again. Does anyone have any ideas?

Marty

 

[kyoshozx]

Hmm sounds like an extremely weird problem. Can you explain in more details exactly what happens? Can you ping the server from the client side once you can't access the internet anymore?

 

[PCPilgrim]

Do you have ICS set to provide dynamic addressing on the internal network via DHCP or is it set for static addressing?

PCPilgrim

 

[Marty]

The wierd part is that although both Internet Explorer and Outlook Express don't work, sometimes AIM will stay connected, and I will still be able to send and receive IMs. If I remember correctly, though, I am unable to ping other servers. Strange, huh? I will check the next time it happens. I guess this means that the conection of the client computers was set up improperly. I changed the settings in Internet Options to use a proxy server rather than to automatically detect settings, as stated in the Windows help file. I'm going to see if that makes a difference.

I believe I have the computer set up for dynamic addressing; that is, the client computers automatically obtain their IP adresses, if that is what it means.

A second problem which has popped up is that the two client computers are unable to send files via AIM. Surely there is a workaround for this, could someone please point me to it?

Marty

 

[potz]

of only your im works, then it sounds like a dns problem. find your dns servers for your internet connection and see if you can put them in the network settings of the computers connected thru ics.

 

[obenton]

You want all LAN settings unchecked. ICS uses network address translation, no proxy server. And no sending files from a client computer unless you use port mapping.