A BIG THANK YOU to all who offered suggestions.

The initial trouble was in trying to get a Gateway networked with linksys
products.  After my customers fiddled with it and blew it all out of the
water, I started trying to patch/fix the network.  I got all back up, but
was still having troubles accessing the secondary partition on one of the
systems, and yes it was shared.

I ended up keeping the linksys and hub, as suggested, simply because I know
it's better than a peer to peer.
As either Shawn or Bob suggested, I started over from scratch and used
NetBEUI and made sure to disassociate the modem using only TCP/IP on it,
double and triple checked IRQ conflicts, fired it back up and things work
perfectly now.  Oh, I also played with setting the gateway to disabling
browse master, I believe is what it was called.   Things are perfect now.

Again, Thanks all.

David A. Abbe
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