cheers
i was all ready to give up on this one
was starting to suspect the hardware myself
the cable has got "xover writen on it and at both ends on the connecters
as for the card i suspected it might be sus so borrowed one from work that was lying around, checked with our it bod first, that it was a working one(though he is clueless)
bearing in mind that im in well over my head here goes
right then when i ping 127.0.0.1 i do get replys on both machines
had a look at eventvwr and there is a regular error called mrxsmb that states
the master browser has recieved a server announcment from the computer KIDS that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NETBT-TCPIP
the master browser is stoping or an election is being forced
hope that means summit to you
