problem with internet sharing

Sep 19, 2006 1 Replies
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Hi



I have established an ad hoc wireless connection between two computers. On the laptop I have Win Xp running and on the desktop PC Win 2000. From the file and print sharing point of view everything is working fine. But the problem came when I was trying to share the internet connection.



I used Network Setup Wizard on the laptop to establish internet sharing. The setup went out ok, and I was able to open

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on the desktop computer (the one with Win 2000). Also, when I put some word in the Google search bar to look for I get results. But that is it. If I try to click on some of the result web pages, or I try to open some other web site besides Google nothing happens.



The browser is showing "Web site found. Waiting for reply..." but it won't open the page (for example

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To summarize, only

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I am able to open, other web sites no.



Any suggestions what to do?



Thanks.



Lux


Yeah, you should stop trying to do Ad-Hoc with XP. It's flaky to say the least about it.

Duane :)

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