Vista, ICS and Nova how to

[arboristman]

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Vista, ICS and Nova how to
First, let me preface this by explaining what I was trying to do. I wished to use a local "hot spot" for the connection for my Nova for security reasons, and I was having one heck of a time getting the ICS under Vista working for this. I am using a NetGear WPN111 USB WiFi adapter, sitting on the rail of my balcony, and two ten foot USB extension cables going to my Vista machine. I was able to pick up the "hot spot" no problem (as well as a dozen other secured and unsecured connections, so the adapter works well). I was able to connect to the internet no problem, but just couldn't get the ICS to work properly to feed the NFusion. I was using a 10 foot cross wired cable joined to a 15 foot straight cat 5 cable, so that was good. It was just the ICS part that was baffling me. My Nova worked fine connected directly to my router on my Home network (but which defeats the purpose of what I was trying to do). I even hooked up my laptop (running XP) to the Adapter to see if possibly I was doing something else wrong with cabling, or lengths of cable or anything else, but it performed flawlessly following similar instructions to hooking up for dial-up. So now I knew it was something with Vista. I tried to duplicate the settings exactly for Vista that I had on my XP based laptop, but to no avail. I followed all the instructions I could find here and elsewhere, but nothing would work, until I came accross this tidbit in a Tech forum:


QUOTE:

Dear all,

Just as what you guys feel, I've keep searching for a solution of this problem. Some people
think that it is a bug, but I proved, it's not true.

Motivated by my curiosity and hacker sprits, I figured out that the problem is caused by a
failed IPv6 stack problem, which repeatly shown in my event log.

To address this problem, I tried to disable IPv6, disable new dynamic stack, disable
firewalls, enable static IP and so on. But they all failed.

To my surprise, the solution is extremely simple.
First, disable the static IP and ICS (if you have set previously).
Second, go to Control panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing center > Managing
network connections (on the right corner)> Select all connections > right click on one of
the connection > click "Network bridging"
Third, when finished, right click on the icon of Network Bridge > select "properties" >
remove the tick of your internet connection in the upper box > click "OK"
Fourth, right click the icon of your internet connection > select "properties" > go to the
"sharing" page, tick both check box. > click "OK"
Now, wait for the Windows Vista to recongnize the new network setting. Wait a minute and
check if both computer can get access to interent. If the tricks failed to work, just
restart both of PC.
Lastly, I would like to say sorry to all of you as I am not a native in english. There may
be many grammar and spelling mistakes. Please correct me.

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I take absolutely no credit for coming up with this, but son of a gun...it worked for me. If this is already in a sticky or guide, then I apologize for duplicating it, but I couldn't find it. Hope this helps someone. I was pulling my hair out for hours (and I don't have much to spare...lol)

Cheers
acidflash