James

Have you checked that your subnet mask and gateway are the same on both
machines? Also what other protocols are you running?

"James Kilner" wrote:

> I have XP Home (Laptop) and Win2k (desktop). I have a network cable giving a
> direct link between the two of them. I can view shared docs on each of them,
> but I cannot ping between the two or share my internet connection.
> I have tried to share the internet connection from the Win2k box and from
> the XP Home box, but it just doesn't work. I have looked at several on-line
> tutorials for how to get this up and running, but have still come up blank.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> James