Internet connection sharing problem on ad-hoc network

Hi,
I have a problem with Windows Internet Connection Sharing. I set up an Ad-hoc wireless network between my host computer (which has LAN internet connecion) with client notebook, both with Windows XP. This network works fine. I also set up ICS on the host computer, but this doesn't work.

Notebook recognizes the shared connection, it seems connected, there are packets flowing between host and client, but I can't connect to any webpage on notebook.

Computer's LAN connection is flawless.

I can ping computer from notebook and vice versa.

Computer's IP is same as the notebooks gateway.

When pinging any page from notebook, it translates its address to IP so obviously DNS works, but the page still cannot be pinged (it is timeouted).

There is no firewall involved, Windows firewall as well as Bitdefender is turned off on both, the computer and the notebook.

ICS properties can be managed even from the notebook.

I tried setting the ICS manually and through the wizard, but nothing works.

I would really appreciate any help, hint or advice, because I am out of ideas, what can be wrong. But please don't tell me to buy router, because I need this option only few days a month when I am on visit,
it is not how I connect to internet on daily basis, I have a router at home. Thanks a lot in advance for any idea.

Lixpas

If you want to use one computer to provide internet connection to another computer and you have 2 high speed internet devices [such as a wireless adapter and an ethernet port] on the computer doing the sharing, you can bridge the 2 devices together. I do this so that a secondary computer can connect to my main computer through the ethernet ports and my main computer is then "sharing" the wireless adapter with my secondary computer.

Open up the internet connections window [not the internet connection wizard], select the devices that you want to bridge, right click on one of them [either one] and then select bridge connections.

I hope this helps you but if it doesn't then I'm not quite sure I can help you because I'm not understanding what you are trying to do.

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