Can't get my old Win ME machine talking to my new Win XP Pro machine. Changed the crossover cable and still no change. Can't get a response when I ping the other computer. My Win ME IP address is 192.168.1.1. and my Win XP IP address is 192.168.1.5. What network components do I need on the Win XP LAN card? I don't seem to have NETBUI and I read somewhere that I need that. How do I install these? Alan

XP has built in networking just use the Wizard that is what is is included for. Also details are shown in HELP which is on the XP start menu.

Do you have any firewall installed such as ZoneAlarm? If you have then you'll need to add the IP addresses into the Trusted Zone (on each machine) to allow the PCs to see each other.

Don't know where you heard that you need NetBEUI, but you don't ... all you need is TCP/IP as your network protocol.

U can use netbeui in a simple peer-to-peer LAN - but whilst it's there for '9x/ME it's not installed with XP. It can be added (it's on the CD). netbeui is fast, simple to use, least demanding on system reosurces; was designed for simple LAN use... But M$ have decided to drop support for it with XP onwards... Again, it's there if you really want to use it - but it isn't essential (although I use it on occssion for testing out XP to '9x/ME connections...). However if you wish to share an ISP via XP to ME... you will need tcp/ip; netbeui is non-rtouable and thus can't deal with ISP sharing issues. Besides temporarily disabling any firewall also enable netbeui over tcp/ip for XP... More detailed how to do it all is at: http://www.wown.com http://www.practicallynetworked.com and: http://www.chicagotech.net/ Go to the networks section... e.g. "mixed networks" It explains the how/why of "netbios over tcp/ip" in a mixecd OS network... Might be useful to read/know about...

And of course you do NOT have your XP in NTFS, do you? Because ME in FAT32 can't read NTFS, although XP in NTFS can read ME in FAT32.

Carson: If you're implying that ntfs areas cannot be accessed across a LAN from an ME/'9x/NT/dos PC then t'is useful to remember... This issue of file formats across a LAN is frequently misunderstood. File formats are abstracted across a network (i.e. they do not enter into/are removed from the discussion). As long as the networked PC/user has "right of access" to (i.e. "permisssion" to access) a shared file/folder on another PC on the LAN it should be able to access it - regardless of the folder's/file's format and the OS involved in accessing it. If the an ntfs area is on the same physical system as an OS that cannot access ntfs (dos/'9x/ME/NT) then that OS will not be able to access it. Similarly dos/95A/win2x/3x cannot access fat32 if that file format is present on the same physical PC; but they can access on another PC across a LAN; and so on... If a networked PC/user cannot access a folder/file on another PC on the LAN then either, it does not have permission (one way or another), or there is problem with the LAN configuration itself. Again file formats are invisible/abstracted/removed from the equation across a LAN; it's permissions (one way or another) that determine who/what can access a given folder/file - regardless of its format.