WLAN between Vista and XP [internet connection sharing]

I want to share the internet connection from Vista so I can access the Net with my XP machine wirelessly.

The Vista machine is connected to a wireless network from which it can access the internet, and I want to connect the XP machine to the Vista machine wirelessly so I can use it's wireless connection to gain internet access with the other machine.

I created an ad-hoc network on the Vista machine and set a password, and I can see the Vista machine from my XP machine, but once I want to connect to it I can't because I get an error saying I need a password that is 5-13 ASCII characters or 13-18 [something] hexadecimal characters (I enter the password I set while setting up the network on Vista but it just doesn't work )

 

If I'm not mistaken you will need a second wireless card to setup ICS, so you can bridge the connections. Not sure how it works with an Adhoc configuration. Some one that uses Vista is going to need to help you.

Were you able to establish a connection between Vista and XP wirelessly, just simple file sharing? Vista and XP default workgroups are different too, these need to be the same.

 

Ok, so, the _Vista machine has wireless capabilities, and the XP machine has wireless capability, so .... what am I missing here? Why not just connect the XP machine to the same wireless source that the _Vista machine is connected to? In other words, why do you want to Rube Goldberg a two-step connection through the _Vista machine when you could simply connect directly?

 

I guess he doesn't want to be seen

 

Something like that

The thing is, when I want to connect to the wireless router to which the Vista machine is connected, I fail to get an IP and my WLAN gets shut down on XP machine... This indicates a problem with the XP machine, right? :/ But I'm able to connect to other wireless networks with the XP machine so I'm kinda out of ideas here...

 

Maybe the Router is configured to only give out a certain amount of IP Addresses. Do u have permission to access the Router's configuration?

Have you ever tried manually giving the XP machine an IP Address?

What do u mean by the "WLAN gets shut down"?

 

I don't have the permission to mess with the router. Even if I disconnect the Vista machine and try connecting the XP machine to the router I still don't get an IP.
I've got a switch on my laptop to switch wireless on or off, and it gets switched off automatically after trying to connect to the router.
Oh well, I'll see what happens after a format, I've been planning to do it anyway, this is just another reason for doing id

 

With all due respect, if you don't own the router, and don't have permission to access it, and something seems to be shutting you down when you try to connect surreptitiously, perhaps you're not authorized to be connecting to this network at all?

 

I don't want to start a flame or fight, BUT, how could I even try connecting to a network if I didn't know the network password, now would I? And if I would do that, don't you think that if I had the knowledge to hack into people's networks I wouldn't be asking stuff I'm asking in my first post?

Anyway, if I can connect to a network with a Vista machine, I obviously DO know the network password, don't I?. If you REALLY need to know the situation; I'm a subtenant while I'm in another city during the week because of my college, and me and my roommate use our lady's internet connection through her wireless router, with the password she gave us, and I want to share files between our laptops, along with the internet connection. Nothing illegal or immoral included