ICS trouble shooting in windows XP?

Question

I have two PC running windows XP pro. With sp2. The first one is connected to ADSL service, I tried to run ICS (internet connection sharing )between these two computers but it did not work. On the client PC whenever I launch internet explorer it shows immediately error message (The page can’t be displayed ) as if there is no connection at all. In fact I followed Microsoft Article ID 314066 (How to enable Internet Connection Sharing on a home or a small office network connection in Windows XP) and many others but it did not work
Would you please advise how to solve the problem.
Best regards,
Alaa Mostafa
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Answer 1

First these are the connections you would need:

-Cable from wall to Modem
-Ethernet, or USB, from modem to computer
-Ethernet cable from Computer #1 to Computer #2 (NOTE--- This must be a crossover ethernet cable, not a straight through ethernet cable)

On computer #1 turn on the ICS service. On computer #2 you need to tell it to connect to the internet through another computer.

That should do it.