Okay, I am probably the 10000th person to ask about this, but here it goes. I am having problems getting ICS up and running. As a server. I am using a Compaq 7460 with Windows ME installed. There are two Realtek Fast Ethernet 10/100 Mbit cards installed on this computer, one connected to the external ADSL modem (static IP address) and the other to the client. The client is a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 3190 laptop with a Xircom Credit Card PCMCIA 10/100 Mbit Ethernet card. I install ICS on the server, and everything works juse fine. The server itself can connect to the Internet, and if I check the ICS icon in the tray, it says that 1 computer is using the connection. However, when I run the ICS wizard on the client, nothing happens. So, I tried to make it work with static IP (192.168.0.2) and using 192.168.0.1 as the gateway. Still nothing.I try to ping from the client to the server - time out. Same thing trying to ping from the server to the client. However, I know that there is no problem with any of the network cards - there are no conflicts in device manager on either the client or the server, and I have tested each card individually against the ADSL connection, and they all work. What's the problem? Any conflict between hardware devices should show up in the device manager, shouldn't it? TCP/IP or NetBeui problem? I am getting really frustrated, and I would really appreciate some help in getting this up and running. Here is some additional information about the setup that may or may not be useful: SERVER 196 MB RAM 500 Mhz AMD Athlon processor Running Norton Personal Firewall Running Norton Antivirus CLIENT 64 MB RAM 466 Mhz Intel processor Running Norton Personal Firewall Running Norton Antivirus Thanks! /Chip

chip just a long shot is your firewall running? i use ZA and had to configure it to allow ICS shep

Are you using a hub or direct connect? Make sure you are using the correct cables. -me-

Are you sure you are binding ICS to the correct adapter? If both adapters in this computer are exactly the same, are you really sure you have chosen the correct adapter when running through the ICS wizard?

You may have a faulty network cable between the 2 machines.