Vista network problems

[Durin Mahalul]

Hi I study software engineering on the University, so I know something about the computers, but I am not skilled in Vista OS, so I would like to ask you for an advice.

First at all I am sorry for my english, because for long years I had to just read it and not write it.

Now my problem.

At home I have two computers - desktop and laptop.

On the desktop is Vista Business x64 installed and on laptop is XP Pro x86 SP2 installed.

In desktop I have two network cards and I use it for accesing internet from my laptop. So there are two local networks - one for my laptop and second to internet provider.

Laptop: Local: IP 192.168.0.2, Mask 255.255.255.0, Gateway 192.168.0.1, DNS - filled

Desktop: Local: IP 192.168.0.1, Mask 255.255.255.0, Gateway none, DNS - none

To Internet provider: IP 192.168.2.204, Mask 255.255.255.0, Gateway 192.168.2.1, DNS - filled, internet sharing set

When both these computers were XP Pro, there was no problem, but now there are several of them.

1)

Desktop: After some time connected to internet, when I open new browser window, I can't load the page, and any program can't make a new connection. But ICQ or Azureus are still connected. And from laptop I can connect with anything.

When this happens I also can not connect to my ftp server running on laptop.

2) When 1 yet didn't happen I can connect to my ftp server on laptop and I can download with no problem. But when I want to upload something, it dies after few seconds with no reason. I tried more ftp servers and clients.

Please, when you have an idea, ask for more info, because I don't know what can be relevant.

[Tripredacus]

For your desktop's private NIC (the one to connect to your notebook) put the DNS info in there that is on the other NIC.

You would probably have less problems if you just bought a router to use.