Hi Wes,
Mensch, this stuff drives me nuts when I let it. Thanks for the heads-up re
the service name-change; Regardless, your info isn't enough for me to get
things going on my own (and I *do* appreciate your post!!). I may have to
sacrifice my systems to hacks trained in Windows-Networking arcana. Network
Wizard is about as useful for my setting up the most trivial network as is
Excel's number-crunching capabilities are accurate (not good, fwiw).

I'm at a bare-bones level (I have no proxy servers, etc.), am letting my
ISP/router set up the addressing (mistake? dunno), have tried this with
Windows Firewall (a joke) on and off, and countless other configurations out
of, what, more than 4536 possibilities just at the easily accessible
interfaces?

I am new to this newsgroup, and don't yet know if it's the right place to be
posting. Would you suggest I post to another spot? This NG might be the
equivalent of the excel.newuser group, which is fine, but not the spot for
more specific questions.

Again: I have an XP Pro machine with two comm cards; I want to have it
connect to the Inet, and the rest of my humble LAN connect to the Inet
through my primary computer. This is a home-based operation (and the IP
address is whatever my ISP wants to dish out). Where to start?---as all of
my attempts thus far have been futile. And FWIW, I found setting up a far
more substantial network some years back with Macs and Suns a hell of a lot
more straightforward.

Grumpy in Sillycone Valley,
Dave Braden
(Excel)

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%23AlqvGN3FHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> This service is renamed to Windows Firewall (ICF) and Internet Connection
> Sharing (ICS) after the installation of Service Pack 2.
>
> This service was named Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) / Internet
> Connection Sharing (ICS) with Service Pack 1a.
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:%230ljJn$2FHA.476@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
> David J. Braden <dbraden@nomail.invalid> hunted and pecked:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to get two PCs networked, one to share a connection with the
>> other (it has two LAN cards). I have been able to get these computers to
>> recognize each other, but the client couldn't get to the Internet.
>>
>> Is this possibly because ICS isn't evidently installed for either
>> computer? I don't see it among the services, and yet I see reference to
>> it in "XP Inside Out". What can I do, please.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Dave Braden
>