The network in our house comprises of three PCs, all running XP Pro, which share a dial-up connection on one of them through Internet Connection Sharing. I recently upgraded the CPU and motherboard on my PC (ICS client) and reinstalled XP Pro, as well as updating to SP1 (due to USB 2.0 driver problems.)
The problem I'm having is that despite the option be enabled on the host PC, I can't control the Internet Gateway connection on my client PC, as I was able to before the upgrade. If I boot up my PC while an internet connection is present on the host PC, everything works fine, I can access the net and the host connection shows up as an Internet Gateway in the network Connections menu. If a connection isn't present, or it drops out, the Internet Gateway icon disappears from the Network Connections menu, as opposed to the situation on the other client PC (and mine before the upgrade), where the Gateway icon changes to 'Disconnected', allowing the client PC user to double click and establish a connection on the host again.
What can be done to keep the Internet Gateway icon present, even when the host connection is disconnected, allowing the client PC control over the connection?
The problem I'm having is that despite the option be enabled on the host PC, I can't control the Internet Gateway connection on my client PC, as I was able to before the upgrade. If I boot up my PC while an internet connection is present on the host PC, everything works fine, I can access the net and the host connection shows up as an Internet Gateway in the network Connections menu. If a connection isn't present, or it drops out, the Internet Gateway icon disappears from the Network Connections menu, as opposed to the situation on the other client PC (and mine before the upgrade), where the Gateway icon changes to 'Disconnected', allowing the client PC user to double click and establish a connection on the host again.
What can be done to keep the Internet Gateway icon present, even when the host connection is disconnected, allowing the client PC control over the connection?