Ics Problems

[DjSpAnKy]

THIS IS THE SETUP, I'M RUNNING A NETWORK AND I'M THE HOST MACHINE AND RUNNING WINDOWS ME, WHILE MY SISTERS MACHINE IS THE CLIENT MACHINE (ME). THESE ARE MY PROBLEMS:

1. WHEN I TRY TO PUT MY MACHINE IN STANDBY MODE
WINDOWS SENDS A DIALOGUE BOXES STATING THAT THE COMPUTER IS ON A NETWORK AND GOING INTO STANDBY MODE WHILE DROP THERE CONNECTIONS>>>>>> IS THERE ANYWAY OF OVERRIDING THIS OR BYPASSING IT, SO I CAN PUT THE COMPUTER IN STANDBY MODE.

2. MY SISTER IS THE CLIENT COMPUTER ON THE NETWORK
(RUNNING WIN ME) AND AFTER ABOUT 4 HRS OR SO IS KICKED OFF THE NETWORK AND CAN ONLY REGAIN CONNECTIVITY BY REBOOTING.......IS THERE A TIMER FOR ICS IN THE REGISTRY IN EITHER THE HOST OR CLIENT MACHINE THAT CAN BE ALTERED TO STOP THIS.

HELP TO EITHER OR BOTH PROBS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED

[MosDef112]

Welcome to SpeedGuide!

Being a host, and a client, can be the same thing. Please be more specific about what you mean, whereas you may be the host attached directly to your Internet connection, etc.

1. WHEN I TRY TO PUT MY MACHINE IN STANDBY MODE
WINDOWS SENDS A DIALOGUE BOXES STATING THAT THE COMPUTER IS ON A NETWORK AND GOING INTO STANDBY MODE WHILE DROP THERE CONNECTIONS>>>>>> IS THERE ANYWAY OF OVERRIDING THIS OR BYPASSING IT, SO I CAN PUT THE COMPUTER IN STANDBY MODE.


Putting your computer in standby essentially is telling your computer to go to sleep, and by putting it to sleep you are technically shutting down all peripherals in your PC except the motherboard. The motherboard stays active to "stand by" for a keystroke on the keyboard that will wake up the PC. Because of this, you generally can't keep your LAN connection active. I would check in your BIOS for a setting that allows a given number of PCI slots to stay on even while it's sleeping. I'm not sure if Sleep is the equivalent of Hibernate, but if it is then you're out of luck.

2. MY SISTER IS THE CLIENT COMPUTER ON THE NETWORK
(RUNNING WIN ME) AND AFTER ABOUT 4 HRS OR SO IS KICKED OFF THE NETWORK AND CAN ONLY REGAIN CONNECTIVITY BY REBOOTING.......IS THERE A TIMER FOR ICS IN THE REGISTRY IN EITHER THE HOST OR CLIENT MACHINE THAT CAN BE ALTERED TO STOP THIS.

Try using a different LAN subnet, like 10.10.10.0. That worked for my setup, odd enough.

[DjSpAnKy]

Try using a different LAN subnet, like 10.10.10.0. That worked for my setup, odd enough. Would doing that allow for the other computer to keep its online connection to the internet through ICS in Windows ME without being kicked off after 4 hours.

All i'm asking in the first question, is there a
way of allowing my computer which acts as the gateway to the NET to enter standby mode without getting that dialogue box, cause when I ues to use windows 2k in the same setup I would hit stanby, the computer would go in to standby mode and become active when the client would require the connection. So is there a way to use that setup in windows ME.

[cyberskye]

Does your BIOS support "wake on LAN"? Don't have any experience with this but I understand that it may apply to your situation.

Skye

[MosDef112]

You'd have to configure your other workstation with an IP within the 10.10.10.0 subnet as well, so you'd give it an address like 10.10.10.25. As for your other issue, if Windows ME is warning you that it'll do that, chances are it won't support it like W2K did. It's all in the driver that it uses, and how it's written for your particular NIC. Wake on LAN is irrelevent in this situation because the packet that would be sent from the connecting workstation when querying a site isn't the packet that the NIC would listen for to "wake up," and re-establish the connection. Wake on LAN only works with pieces of software like IBM's Netfinity.

[cyberskye]

Learn something new every day! I have that feature on my Dell Precision Wkstn and never enabled it thinking a vulnerability might be found one day...