i have one new windows xp pro workstation in a windows 2000 network. it was a winme workstation and worked fine (as well as winme can - i guess). anyway, i can ping the ADC from the new winxp workstation and can ping the winxp workstation from the ADC. i can see the network from the winxp workstation and can map network drives. i can see the winxp workstation in the network from other machines such as the ADC. if i click on the winxp workstation in my network places on the ADC (in order to view or access the shares) i get "[winxp ws] is not available. the remote procedure call failed." i also have a win98 workstation for testing and can see the shares of the winxp workstation (unlike on a win2k machine) but when i try to install an executable from a share on the winxp to the win98 it hangs and i get "this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer." here's the main problems: i can see the network from the winxp workstation and map drives as mentioned above but cannot install executables from any network shares to the the winxp machine (desktop hangs and computer must be rebooted). Also, i cannot play any mp3s from the network in winxp (all media players hang or skip songs) when played from an MP3 share out on the network - while they can be played on a win2k pro workstation fine. it appears that winxp security settings are more granular than win2k and i believe that there are additional settings that must be configered...any ideas? all winxp hotfixes and packs are installed, the win2k ADC is in mixed mode and all network diagnostics are positive - no protocol errors have been detected. TIA krb

never mind. the problem was the nic. it was a linksys lnetx100 version 2. after i changed it to an lnetx100 version 4 card the problem went away. i guess the older cards can't function properly under winxp even though it has native drivers for them. excessive data collision on the network, i guess. -krb