I posted this a week or so ago and got no response, so decided to try again. After reinstalling Windows 95 and all the followon updates on a single client machine which I want to be able to access the internet via my Win 98SE gateway machine; and setting up the TCP/IP protocol on both the gateway and client as directed for ICS; and after then installing ICS on the gateway machine; I get an error when starting Netscape on the client. The error is: Netscape was unable to establish a network socket connection. There may be insufficient system resources or the network may be down. Try connecting again later or try restarting Netscape. You can also try restarting Windows. The network works fine, as does the internet connection from the gateway machine. Free resources on each machine is about 73%; and restarting Netscape and/or Windows had no effect on the error. Looking for some advice on how to overcome this error and get ICS working. The client is a 200 Mhz Pentium II machine, and the gateway is a 800 mhz Athlon connected to the internet via cable modem. Appreciate any help David Hurst Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html