This is unusual - I wanted to enable ICS on my WinXP Pro machine
in order to share the internet connection via WLAN with another
computer but I got an error message claiming that the CSI service
was not installed (error code 0x0424 'The specified service does
not exist as an installed service'). The connection is otherwise
functional - I can send files from one machine to the other
without any problems.

I'm confused now. Isn't ICS a part of XP? How can it be missing?
And if it does how can I 'install' it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I found this.... Go to start, run, enter services.msc . Make sure all
the following services are turned on. To turn on a service, click to
select the check box. Also see if they are set to manual or auto
start. If manual, after a reboot the service will be off again..


      . Application Layer Gateway Service
      . Network Connections
      . Network Location Awareness (NLA)
      . Plug and Play
      . Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
      . Remote Access Connection Manager
      . Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
      . Telephony

RG wrote:
There are a number of parts of XP that are not automatically installed, and
depending on who you got XP from ( pre-installed by a computer manufacterer,
or from microsoft), what is default installed is different...

Go to start/control panel/add or remove programs.. On the left side are
three big icons, the 3rd being "Add/Remove Windows Components".. click on
that..a windows components wizard starts up, and lets you change what is
installed.

I think ICS is part of "Network Services"...A box can be checked, blank, or
grey..... make sure it is checked.

Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:11 PM

or grey..... make sure it is checked.

I did that but unfortunately nothing even similar to ICS showed
up there (or anywhere in the windows components setup) for me to
install.

RG wrote:
Do you by ant chance have something like norton systemworks, or a firewall
installed?  That can block it too...

Peter Pan wrote:
Show quoteHide quoteNever mind that.. I went back to your original mesage and got the part that
wasn't snipped....
"computer but I got an error message claiming that the CSI service
was not installed (error code 0x0424 'The specified service does
not exist as an installed service')."

If you got a message saying it wasn't installed, that's not a
firewall/systemworks sort of message...

Okay.. silly question.. who made the computer, and is it an unmodified XP,
or a version supplied by the machines manufacturer (and may have been
modified).. If an OEM version, check the manufacturers site.

Bottom line, that feature (ICS) is part of windows and supplied in the
microsoft version...

If it is a real microsoft version of xp, it may have not been installed when
you first installed xp....  If that is the case, you should be able to run
setup again (it becomes change if it detecs a previous installation).

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 04:58:45 +0100, in alt.internet.wireless , "RG"
<kh***@op.pl> wrote:

The MS documentation says 
"it is recommended that you use the Network Setup Wizard in Windows XP
Professional to enable Internet Connection Sharing. "

Did you try that? Sorry, I missed the start of the thread.

Try going to C:\windows\i386 find the ICS  software and use Expand to
install it.

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Connecting over 400m. Bridge or Repeater mode?
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File Sharing Problem
spoke to soon on belkin pre-n
Bridge different subnets
Re: Wireless access point problems...
Motorola WR850G as Access Point (not router)
WiFi Bridge
Low or no signal in same room?
Sharing internet connection with Desktop