Keith,
Thanks for the feedback. *I* see the service that Wes pointed to under my
ADSL connection (through a hardware firewall); as he pointed out, it is now
(as of SP 2) under the Windows Firewall service. Why you don't see it
puzzles, and to an extent worries, me, at least to the degree it might throw
a local "netxpert" for a loop.

I'm used to solving this sort of stuff on my own in a timely fashion, and
feel embarrassed that I just don't get it. Regardless, I *will* get this set
up, and, at Wes's prodding, report the "solution" to you guys. I used to
post a lot in the Excel ng's (I was an MVP), and can really appreciate
seeing an OP replying with what did the trick for his/her problem.

Last queries: this seems like a "basic" question to me; am I off in this
regard? Or should I be posting for this sort of help in another NG?

If *any* of you want help w/ mathematical economics or theoretical/applied
statistics, plz feel free to post to the ms.excel.* groups. I owe you guys.
And I actually know something about the areas, as opposed to my total
inanity re networks.

Regards,
Dave Braden

"Keith Willcocks" <buccaneer@invalidaddress.com> wrote in message
news:em8GJdW5FHA.4076@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>I am no expert, but going by my own system, which used to use ICS to
>connect my wife's Pc to the internet, the ICS option only appears on a dial
>up connection. Dial up includes the USB broadband modem that I used for
>my ADSL line. Now that I have switched to an ADSL modem/router my PC
>connects via an Ethernet cable (as does my wife's) and neither show the ICS
>option. I suspect that by using a router you have negated the ICS facility.
>To get it back you would need to have a dial up (or broadband modem pseudo
>dial up) set up.
>
> It happens that the broadband dial up software is still on my PC and I
> have just checked to confirm that it is only on the dial up connection
> that I have an ICS option, there is no such facility on the Ethernet
> connection.
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Keith Willcocks
> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
>
>
>
> "David J. Braden" <dbraden@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:uyAM$tV5FHA.3636@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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