I have just setup a connection between two computers both running Windows XP Pro SP2. My computer is setup as the client and my younger brothers computer connects to the internet through mine. Both computers have windows xp firewall disabled and both have zonealarm installed. Both computers are connection via cross-over cable. I agree a router is a much better option but I will only buy one if I have to!
I thought I setup the connection successfully. He can see the connected internet gateway in his network connections and he can view my shared folders (network places) He can also use other internet applications such as file-sharing apps and msn. My problem is internet explorer and opera and firefox will work for like 5 minutes then each time I type a web address in I will get a timeout error. The problem will go away once rebooting his pc but then after 5 or so internet pages time out. Does anybody else have this problem? I had the problem once before when I setup a connection from my laptop to my computer and solved it but I forgot how I done it. Please help, he is going mad lol.
> I have just setup a connection between two computers both running Windows > XP Pro SP2. My computer is setup as the client and my younger brothers > computer connects to the internet through mine. Both computers have > windows xp firewall disabled and both have zonealarm installed. Both > computers are connection via cross-over cable. I agree a router is a much > better option but I will only buy one if I have to!
> I thought I setup the connection successfully. He can see the connected > internet gateway in his network connections and he can view my shared > folders (network places) He can also use other internet applications such > as file-sharing apps and msn. My problem is internet explorer and opera > and firefox will work for like 5 minutes then each time I type a web > address in I will get a timeout error. The problem will go away once > rebooting his pc but then after 5 or so internet pages time out. Does > anybody else have this problem? > I had the problem once before when I setup a connection from my laptop to > my computer and solved it but I forgot how I done it. Please help, he is > going mad lol.
> Do you have the Free version of ZoneAlarm? It does not support Internet > Connection Sharing.
It's a official statement from zonelabs but it's not really true. I use the free-version and I'm able to share my internet connection. You just have to enable first the 15-days trial pro-version. Then you enable internet sharing and then you can re-install the free-version. Even if the free-version has no settings about internet sharing, the previous settings of the pro-version were saved and they are reused in the free-version. Incredible, but true :)
