Hi, I'm trying to make a boot floppy to boot to a network drive using inputted ip address and hostname. When the network starts up, I get: PRO0008E: Invalid decimal digit in PROTOCOL.INI file Does anyone know what the cause of that is? I get that for an intel 825xx driver and also for the netflx3 driver. Here's a sample of my protocol.ini file: [network.setup] version=0x3110 netcard=ms$ntflx3,1,MS$NTFLX3,1 transport=tcpip,TCPIP lana0=ms$ntflx3,1,tcpip [TCPIP] NBSessions=6 DisableDHCP=1 DriverName=TCPIP$ BINDINGS=MS$ntflx3 LANABASE=0 IPADDRESS0=129.80.116.231 DEFAULTGATEWAY0=129.80.117.254 SUBNETMASK0=255.255.254.0 [protman] DriverName=PROTMAN$ PRIORITY=MS$NDISHLP [MS$NTFLX3] DRIVERNAME=NTFLX3$ MaxTransmits = 8

Ok, I found out the problem. It's because of the . between each octet. They should be like this: IPADDRESS0=129 80 116 231 DEFAULTGATEWAY0=129 80 117 254 SUBNETMASK0=255 255 254 0 So now my next question is, does anyone know the syntax for stripping the . out of it? I have the user enter the ip address as a variable. Now I need to figure a way to replace the . with spaces. Any ideas?

open the protocol.in with the editor protocol.ini is placed @ C:\net\ (the standard-share where msclient installs itself) there u can change it :)