Hello Group!
I have a company laptop with XP Professional working in a domain
environment. I use this computer at home to access my home lan and
internet with no problem. This computer also has a secondary drive with
XP Home set up in a Workgroup environment, which I only use if I want to
use/install software that I do not want in my XP Professional. It also
access my home internet/intranet with no problem.
I want to access the internet/intranet with a Bluetooth enabled PDA. I
have manually set up ICS, identically in both XP Professional and XP
Home. From the PDA I can ping my Bluetooth device and the
intranet/internet connection nic in both XP configurations, but can only
get in the internet with the use of the PDA in the XP Home
configuration. I suspect that my problem browsing the internet/intranet
with the PDA with the XP Professional is the fact that it works in a
domain environment. Are there any other options using XP Professional?
Or should I use a third party software? Getting help from the IT group
is out of the question.

The following configurations were taken using my home lan. I feel that
if I can get the XP Professional to work right at home I should have no
problem at work.

Working XP Home ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : latitude-d600
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Chadxxxxx
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 570x Gigabit
Integrated Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-1F-xx-xx-xx
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, January 04, 2006
10:07:42 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, January 18, 2038
10:14:07 PM


Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Bluetooth LAN Access Server
Driver
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-10-60-xx-xx-xx
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :


Non-Working XP Professional ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : NC27689500
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : xx.xxx.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : xx.xxx.com

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : coqui.net
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 570x Gigabit
Integrated Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0F-1F-xx-xx-xx
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wed, Jan 04, 06 21:05:24
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Mon, Jan 18, 38 22:14:07

Ethernet adapter {025EBD12-EEAF-4464-A332-4F416EE2ED08}:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Nortel IPSECSHM Adapter -
Packet Scheduler Miniport
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-42-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Bluetooth LAN Access Server
Driver
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-10-60-xx-xx-xx
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Thanks...
Fernando

I removed the laptop from the domain and add it to one of the still
existant old workgroups. The ICS started working inmediatelly. The bad
part is that I do not have enough persimision to add me back to the
domain... Ohhh, well... Will have to get the local IT guys to fix it for
me. Anyway, once they add me back to the domain I will be back to the
original problem. How do I share the internet/intranet in a domain
enviroment?

Thanks...