I am trying to connect a computer running win98 to an XP box. I want to be able to share both an internet connection and files. I have 2 ethernet cards in the 98 box and I also have a hub. If hook my dsl modem into the hub as the input and then hook the 2 computers into the hub, it shares the internet connection fine and works for playing multiplayer games against eachother. However, I can not share files. I have read that you need the two ethernet cards in one computer for this to work properly and I just so happen to have this. So I hooked up the dsl modem into one NIC and then hooked the input of my hub into the other NIC and also hooked the second computer into the hub. This didn't work for anything (net or file sharing). I'm just about ready to give up on the whole file sharing business altogether but thought maybe someone might have some constructive thoughts. Oh and one last thing I have netBEUI installed on both box's. Thanks in advance. -- mike "i wish i knew how to fileshare" nilson

That funny, you would want to hook up exactly what I have in my house right now. Okay, take the output from the router and plug it into the hub's input. Then hook both computers to the hub. Then us the computer with XP to make a network startup disk for any computer in the hub. Just open the file on the floppy you just made on any node in the hub.

I've tried this already with no luck. Any other suggestions? Thanks

DSL connection requires only one NIC in the XP [internet gateway] Machine. Plug the XP box into the router and also the DSL modem and the 98 box. Launch Network Wizard and choose the configuration to match this setup. Make a network setup disk and plug it into the 98 box. As for file sharing, this must be specifically enabled. So, use the Microsoft Wizard and all will be fine. You can als fllow the advice as given in: www.ozcableguy.com