I just installed a home network behind a Linksys cable/dsl router and the feed is from Roadrunner cable. The first machine on the net is running Windows 98 and all is well. The second machine is running Windows 2000 and has a Linksys FastEther nic. DHCP is working on the W2K machine and I can ping sites sire on the internet (eg, www.linksys.com). So DNS is working and I have the WINS server set to the router (which is also a firewall). The problem is that in either IE 5 or Netscape 4.7 I cannot access any outside sites. The connection is always refused. Both the ip address and the dns server addresses are gotten automatically and everything looks ok in ipconfig. Any ideas why I can't see anything from the browsers?

Take out the router IP from the wins. Windows Internet Name Service or WINS for short is a netbios name resolver and shouldn't be pointing to the router. Try to ftp from dos. This will be sure that you are actually hitting the outside world. Tell your browser that it has a proxy and point it to the router. Hope this helps, Shawn

Thanks. I took out the router IP fpr WINS. ftp does not work, neither does using the router as the browser proxy. I don;t need a proxy for the Win98 machine, so I don't think that is it. Could there be some sort of Win2000 security setting that I am missing here? Thanks for your help. Bob