You need to go to settings/control panel/network.  When the dialog box comes up, click add, then choose protocol, Microsoft, then IPX/SPX or netbeui.  These are the protocols the computers use to communicate.  YOu need to bind it to your network adapter.  TCP/IP is for getting on your WAN, not for communicating between the computers.



>I am tiring to connect two computers (windows 98) together using the
>network cards. I think I know what im doing and i set up both computers
>properly. I am tiring to use tcp-ip over the network but the computers
>don't recognize each other. I was wondering if there is some kind of
>utility or guide i can follow to locate the problem. There seems to be no
>way of me to know if the computers are actually sending messages over the
>network cable. I will like to know at what point am i failing. Please help

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