David, You have'nt mentioned, whether you are connecting through a HUB or a SWITCH. If there is no HUB or SWITCH and you are trying to connect two computers directly using network cards only, you need to use a CORSS OVER UTP cable (ususally yellow color). Ahmad YOU WROTE: 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 David ===== Ahmad Salman Aziz 703-266-8039 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com