>Hi all,
>I am trying to enable ICS on my desktop between LAN and 1394 (firewire)
>connections. Desktop is connected to the server with IP 192.168.0.1 via LAN
>connection. Unfortunately someone at MS decided that users do not need to be
>able to change IP for Internet Connection Sharing host.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/310563
> 
>Is there any tricky way to change that?
>I skimmed through registry for clues but all in vein.... :(
>
>P.S. Please do not suggest getting a router or changing DHCP server IP to
>something else but 192.168.0.1 
>
>
>regards
>y.

"Steve Winograd [MVP]" wrote:

> In article <D61335D0-725F-441B-817E-A7E27ACDA***@microsoft.com>, yurko
> <yu***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I am trying to enable ICS on my desktop between LAN and 1394 (firewire)
> >connections. Desktop is connected to the server with IP 192.168.0.1 via LAN
> >connection. Unfortunately someone at MS decided that users do not need to be
> >able to change IP for Internet Connection Sharing host.
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx
> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/310563
> > 
> >Is there any tricky way to change that?
> >I skimmed through registry for clues but all in vein.... :(
> >
> >P.S. Please do not suggest getting a router or changing DHCP server IP to
> >something else but 192.168.0.1 
> >
> >
> >regards
> >y.
>
> The only possible solution I can think of would be to use a hex editor
> to hack the executable code.  I don't know how to do it, and I don't
> recommend doing it.
> --
> Best Wishes,
> Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
>
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> for everyone to see.  I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
> addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
>
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> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>

>> >Hi all,
>> >I am trying to enable ICS on my desktop between LAN and 1394 (firewire)
>> >connections. Desktop is connected to the server with IP 192.168.0.1 via LAN
>> >connection. Unfortunately someone at MS decided that users do not need to be
>> >able to change IP for Internet Connection Sharing host.
>> >
>> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx
>> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/310563
>> > 
>> >Is there any tricky way to change that?
>> >I skimmed through registry for clues but all in vein.... :(
>> >
>> >P.S. Please do not suggest getting a router or changing DHCP server IP to
>> >something else but 192.168.0.1 
>> >
>> >regards
>> >y.
>>
>> The only possible solution I can think of would be to use a hex editor
>> to hack the executable code.  I don't know how to do it, and I don't
>> recommend doing it.
>
>thanks Steve,
>any other options?