I don't have the icon you mention. I have followed the rest of the instructions, but no joy thus far. I.m feeling very very ignorant, but determide to get this working. Thanjs for the help-my thought is to remove all the network settings and start over. **************************************************************************** ********************************** Hi Hugh, I assume you used the Network wizard on your client (win98) machine...so, does the little 'Internet Gateway' Icon display in the task tray of the Client? It should, and then when you want to connect to the internet from the client, you can simply right click on it and choose 'connect'... The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with our NOSPIN Power Linux CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml