ICS installation.

Regarding using ICS, my advice is - don't. With the price of wireless
routers, wired routers, print servers, wireless cards, NICs, and CAT 5 cable
at rock bottom, ICS is no longer necessary.

So I suggest that you reconfigure your LAN. Get a wireless router that
includes a print server (mine is a D-Link DI-714P+ costing about $50), plug
it into your cable or DSL modem, connect each computer to the router with a
CAT 5 cable (RJ45) connected to a NIC (about $20), and connect your printer
to the router print server port. If you want wireless rather than wired
connections for your computers, replace the NIC in each computer with a
wireless card (about $25).

With a setup like this, there is no such thing as a "host" computer, in that
all computers in your LAN have independent access to the internet whether or
not another computer is turned on, and also each computer has independent
access to the printer whether or not another computer is turned on. Further,
your computers in your LAN will have access to each other's files via file
sharing.

Just a thought.

yeh it would be cheaper than buying an xp upgrade for the old computer.
Well thanks for all your time, I have some more saving to do.
All the best.

"Papa" wrote:

Regarding using ICS, my advice is - don't. With the price of wireless
routers, wired routers, print servers, wireless cards, NICs, and CAT 5 cable
at rock bottom, ICS is no longer necessary.

So I suggest that you reconfigure your LAN. Get a wireless router that
includes a print server (mine is a D-Link DI-714P+ costing about $50), plug
it into your cable or DSL modem, connect each computer to the router with a
CAT 5 cable (RJ45) connected to a NIC (about $20), and connect your printer
to the router print server port. If you want wireless rather than wired
connections for your computers, replace the NIC in each computer with a
wireless card (about $25).

With a setup like this, there is no such thing as a "host" computer, in that
all computers in your LAN have independent access to the internet whether or
not another computer is turned on, and also each computer has independent
access to the printer whether or not another computer is turned on. Further,
your computers in your LAN will have access to each other's files via file
sharing.

Just a thought.

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its obvious people dont read the whole post......for others, look in the
windows dir, shold be a dir called Options, look for files marked .cab,
point the installation to that
EdK

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"Richard G. Harper" wrote in message
...
Did you check your hard drive for the Windows Setup files? If they are
there (and on many OEM systems they are) you can install the missing files
from there.

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"hippy1001" wrote in message
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Ok. Its a dell system restore cd for windows 98 secound edition.
The computer had windows 98 secound edition on it.
Doesnt that mean i should have a full os and not have to buy another cd?
This doesn't look very promising!
How much is the cd? and where can i get it?

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

If it is a true OEM CD (has the Microsoft logo on it, not the Dell
logo,
and
is not a "system restore" CD) you should be able to insert it when
asked
for
the missing files.

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"hippy1001" wrote in message
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I have an oem 98se disk from dell. So i take its on there
somewhere.??

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

Yep, that's an easy one. If your CD is not a retail Windows 98 CD
(or
at
least an OEM CD from Microsoft) the files won't be on it. You'll
either
have to beg/borrow/buy one, or check your hard drive for the
Windows
Setup
files (several dozen files whose names start with WIN98 and end
with
the
letters CAB).

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"hippy1001" wrote in message
news Richard, can you tell me why Everytime i try to install it, It
asks
for
files which are not on the HDD or the cd-rom?
I posted the link in my first post. It seems to be all the files
listed.
Is there anywhere else i can get these files?

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

Windows 98 Second Edition will serve as an ICS host with no
problem.

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"hippy1001" wrote in
message
...
I bought the computer to put into a loft conversion(for my
kid).
The
cable
modem is downstairs and does not have enough wire to put
upstairs.
In a
perfect world i would do this but my kid wont let me.
Should ICS work on 98se? Does it work on 98se?
or is there a free program that wil do it? (Im out of money
buying
the
computer)

"madmax" wrote:

hippy1001 wrote:

I am trying to network a 98se and XP machine. The 98se
machine
has
the
internet connection.
When i try to install ICS on the 98se machine it asks
for
files
that
are on the 98se cd. Then it says there are not found which
means
the
installation cannot install ICS.
The files it asks for are listed here

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q229965
The machines are connected through a wireless network
and
are
sharing
files and can communicate with each other.
It is most if not all the files listed in the above web
page
that
it
can not find.
If you need anymore info let me know and i will get
back.
Thanks in advance.


Is there any way you could use the XP for ICS?
It works much better than 98se.
-max

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