network setup wizard

[glockjs]

well im tryin to setup my 2 pc's on a network so i can just use the wireless internet connection on my primary puter.

i did the network setup wizard on the second computer. problem is when i try to do it on my primary system after i double click on the network setup wizard the hour glass pops up for half a mili second and nothing happens...it's like it opened but then closed itself.

im tryin to run a crossover cat6 from the ethernet connections on each of the actual boards. i've tried everything i know of, defrag spyware scan virus scan regclean but it still does the same thing?

any ideas? anybody come across this before where the program seems like it opens but closes at the same instance its started? thanks

[808smokey]

I have but never with network wizard. Maybe you can run scandisk or similar and see if it finds an error. Maybe try it in "safe mode with network connections". Not sure if it'll work but it worth a try :/

[jimmalenko]

I'm feeling your pain, glock, I truly am, but I can't really help as it's a bit beyond mys cope of knowledge.

Out of interest, can both machines ping each other ? Obviously the second one should be able to ping the primary, but I wonder whether the primary is not detecting the secondary properly and so it decides that here are no network connections possible, and therefore closes the Network setup wizard as soon as you run it ? Are they both set-up in the same IP range and in the same workgroup ?

FWIW, it's normally advisable to run it on the computer with the internet connection you want to share first, because that's where you set up that you want ICS available to other computers. Then you run it on the secondary, and it picks up that there is a shared ICS conenction available, and asks if you want to use it. That's how I did mine, anyway, and it worked flawlessly.