In news m_ridzon had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I have two computers in my home network. The host is an XP Pro system
(hardwired to router) and the client is a wireless 98SE laptop. I am
trying to share my dial-up connection. The file sharing works fine.
The client 98SE system is able to enable/disable the host XP dial-up
connection via the Internet Gateway since I ran the XP disk on the
98SE system to setup the network. But, when I click on the IE icon
on the 98SE system to browse the web, the age-old "Cannot find page,
blah, blah, blah" page shows up. I'm confused because I can dial up
the connection perfectly fine from the client 98SE system. When I
click on "enable" on the client, the host computer dials up. But
it's as if Internet Explorer doesn't know to use the wireless adaptor
to access the web. Could it be that it's still trying to use the
laptop's old modem to access it? Do I need to unistall the modem
software on the client? How do I tell Internet Explorer to use the
wireless adaptor to access the web? All of my firewalls are turned
off so I know that's not it.

Never ever use the XP network settings disk. (I mean this - from the
bottom of my heart...)

In your network properties under TCP/IP set the default gateway for DNS from
192.168.0.1, disable the DHCP in the router, have the XP machine handle
DHCP. Best bet? Really? Get another phone line. The last time I disabled
DHCP at the router level the thing decided I could no longer log into it and
I ended up resetting it and, of course, losing all of my settings as it
didn't have a backup function anywhere to be found. The above *might*
work... ICS is a tricky little bugger. Sometimes you need to really toy with
it and add the mshome.net to the default gateway under advanced - not sure
how to do that in 9x any more. There's proxy software out there that might
handle that sort of stuff but, really, ICS on dialup isn't really worth the
work. You'll spend 50 hours playing with it and save a total of 30 minutes
over your lifetime and suffer from slow download speeds due to it and
intermittent disconnects for no reason that anyone other than an über geek
can fathom.


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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
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"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes