{"id":1742,"date":"2021-09-29T13:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:59:11","slug":"ics-server-check-winme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/ics-server-check-winme\/","title":{"rendered":"ICS Server Check [WinMe]"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Steve Winograd<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

If you’ve done everything correctly, ICS should show this screen to indicate that it’s ready to go.\u00a0 Click\u00a0OK<\/b>\u00a0to continue<\/p>\n

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Where is this thing?
\n<\/b>You access ICS’ controls via the Internet Options Control panel.\u00a0 When ICS is installed, you’ll see the addition of a new\u00a0Sharing<\/b>\u00a0button on this Control Panel as shown below.<\/p>\n

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Clicking on the\u00a0Sharing<\/b>\u00a0button brings up the ICS Control Panel. \u00a0 As you can see below, there’s not a lot you can do.\u00a0 No control of logging, no ability to open special ports, no control over Client network access (other than to shut off ICS), no control over ICS’ DHCP server.\u00a0 (We suggest checking the “Show Icon in Taskbar” box so that you’ll be reminded that ICS is running and be able to easily access its Control Panel.)<\/p>\n

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HELP!<\/b>
\nNote the\u00a0HELP<\/b>\u00a0button in the above screenshot.\u00a0 Clicking on it will bring up ICS help.\u00a0 You may find some useful information there, but I thought that most of it wasn’t much help. The Client machine setup information wasn’t much help and was confusing because it referred to the LINKLOCAL 169.254.X.X addresses, when ICS uses the 192.168.0.X series of address for the LAN.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Microsoft has a few helpful articles in its Knowledge Base that can help you figure out whether ICS has installed correctly.\u00a0 In particular,\u00a0Q236465 – Description of How ICS Appears in Network Properties<\/b><\/a>\u00a0tells you what your Network Control Panel should look like after you install ICS.\u00a0 For links to other MS Knowledge Base articles, check the\u00a0ICS Troubleshooting page.<\/a>\u00a0 SOHOinter.net\u00a0<\/b>also has a\u00a0ICS debugging page<\/a><\/b>\u00a0that tells you how to check ICS’ install logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Is this thing on?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

You’re probably excited to get started sharing, so go ahead and try your browser on your sharing Client computers.\u00a0 If, however, things don’t work, you may want to see if ICS installed properly. Check for the following things\u00a0on the computer where you installed ICS<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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    If you check out the Network Control Panel, you’ll see some new additions:<\/p>\n