Hi Heidi, See the following link to Microsoft's technet site. It addresses this exact issue: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q193/6/37.ASP Dan Kucherich > >Hi there everyone! > >I wonder if you could give me some explanations that might help us get our > >3-computers-LAN between the children's and my computer here at home work > >again. We have a Pentium II running Windows 98, a Pentium III running > >Windows 98 SE and a Pentium III running Windows ME. All have Realtek > >RTL8139(A)-based PCI Fast Ethernet network cards and are connected through > >a hub. It worked all well and quick as long as the Windows ME computer was > >not there but a Pentium I with Windows 95 b instead. > > >Now it seems Windows ME is doing things differently and I do not know how > >to handle it. I can connect with the computer on Win98 SE and vice versa > >but cannot contact the Win98 one and vice versa, while the two other > >computers can get in touch without problems. Moreover the rapidity of data > >move between the Win ME and the Win98 SE computers is so much slower > >than it was before. The usual protocols (TCP-IP, DFÜ Adapter and so on) > >are installed same as before, only strange settings we can see is that > >Windows ME does have a virtual network card added and no IPX protocol > >is installed and there is no way I could install it as there is no such > >option but you could only choose between adding "Microsoft ATM Call > >Manager" and "Microsoft ATM Emulationsclient" which I have no idea about. > >tried to find something on the Recovery CD that came with this computer but > >could find nothing though I think I checked all folders on the CD-ROM as I > >do not know a name of a possible file > >TIA Heidi Schröder Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com