So on my windows 11 LTSC pc, i have internet connected through an ethernet cable. I also have another ethernet nic on the pc which is USB to ethernet. When I right click on my main ethernet connection and go to sharing then click on allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection and choose my usb to ethernet nic from the drop down menu, it still wont share the internet connection on that nic. Is there anything i need to add or does this feature just not work on ltsc?
Network sharing are removed Use administrative share and folder Like \\192.168.1.10\c$ where 192.168.1.10 are computer b ip
This doesn't actually share the internet connection does it? As far as I can tell it's only for file and folder sharing.
Yeah, but that's a switch, not a router. Using ordinary windows tools, I suspect you could route between two nics on different ip subnets. Having said that, I have said more than I know.
He says he has an ethernet cable connected, i assume it comes from a mdm/router (over here it is provided by the ISP as mdm with a router integrated). Can't even remember the last time i used internet sharing probably in Win 98 or XP.
Yeah, I thought of that, but haven’t been home to experiment. Running a cable from computer B to computer A ( the one with 2 nics) before setting up the bridge might be required.
When I try to bridge the two nics, it bypasses my main connection and goes right to the secondary one. The main ethernet will then have no internet and the second one will. A switch will work yes but im just wondering why this internet sharing isn't working,
Yeah, same result when I finally tried it. Sharing hard wired connections seems a bit tricky. Otoh, It's simple in Win 10/11 to use a laptop as a wifi hotspot, and share a single internet connection with any other wireless devices you have brought into a hotel room.
I'm wanting to use it with my old xbox 360 that doesnt have wifi on it and sits next to the computer. Im trying not to use a switch because i have enough electronics piled up in the corner as it is.
I think I got it. I had to set sharing on the main ethernet then go over to properties on the second ethernet and assign a static ip address with a preferred dns server of 8.8.8.8
Yes, it is remarkably easy once you figure it out. I didn't need to manually set any ip addresses. Run control panel (Win-R then type control) select Network and Internet then Network and Sharing Center then change adapter settings right click on the ethernet adapter that is connected to the internet then select properties - sharing and share it with the unused ethernet adapter - OK that unused ethernet port is now a lan connection - plugin a laptop (or xbox 360) - life is good. In my case, the laptop I plugged in to the shared port got an ip address that looked like 192.168.137.xx. A new ip subnet was created by sharing.
That's what i've been trying all along and it's not working here until i assigned a static ip. It's like windows 11 cannot assign dynamic ip addresses to the client computer - Unless it is an LTSC issue. This was even mentioned in a youtube video
I was running non-LTSC 25H2 Enterprise on the machine with 2 nics. Hard to guess what may be different. When I run ipconfig before and shortly after turning on the sharing, I see the new 192.168.37.xxx network showing up on the machine doing the sharing, and the client automatically gets an address on this network when it connects.
Im still on 24H2 build 26100.6899. I have updates partially blocked using policy settings. It's been prompting me to take the updates but i just haven't. Maybe this was fixed in an update i didn't yet take. I notice there was networking fixes in update in KB5075899. Maybe this will do it? Is there a way to just install this update and skip all the updates in between? EDIT: Installed latest update and dhcp still not working
It's a interesting approach and I can see that this would be a handy solution indeed. I could not get it to work...yet, but i would like to get it to work. (it should be dooable) Atm my main in this experiment is running on a fresh installed November release of latest Windows 11 Enterprise, (not LTSC, no tweaking), updated and to a Windows 10 Enterprise client. My second nic on main is a Surface usb nic. It should be clearified that: 1. A bridge connection might work, that will use IP's as you are on real network. 2. Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) use NAT so 192.xxx.xxx.xxx is as expected, and perfectly fine, both should provide dhcp with no fuzz. Cap: I can select adapter in 10 but no option to select in 11? (picture from a Windows 7 but it's same deal) The drop down menu is not available in my Windows 11...
I've played with it since that last post. My bridge experiments, with some fiddling, worked out okay on Win11 I had to manually configure the bridge adapter. First run ncpa.cpl on machine with two ethernet adapters Adapter 2 connected to internet 192.168.0.107 and Adapter 1 unused Right click both adapters - bridge connections - it tossed out an error that I never understood completely But... - a bridge adapter did appear in the control panel window Next right click the bridge adapter, properties, only one of the two adapters was added, so select and add the other right click again on the bridge adapter TCP/IPv4 settings entered manually ip 192.168.0.3 / 255.255.255.0 and manual dns 8.8.8.8 Run ipconfig and see what you get. It worked for me a laptop connected to the unused adapter picked an address of 192.168.0.xxx (same subnet) Otoh ,for sharing I checked these boxes - which created a new ip subnet automatically and everything worked
And just like that, out of the blue, restart main pc, I now have the drop down menu.(and probably the router, that i don't have control over, it's not my router/ISP, has updated it's table, just guessing...) I can address the usb nic and using ICS with NAT, I can ping 8.8.8.8 It just works, and quite frankly, it works pretty well too. Excellent. It's not a solution I will use as main connection but it was satisfying to make it work non the less. How did bridge connection work out for you? Any lag?