OK Ive disabled the firewall before going through every step on the trouble shoot and I still get the same message. I am able to ping the address from the DOS prompt. The players IP is set to 10.1.1.2 and my computer is set to 10.1.1.1 with both subnets on 255.255.255.0. Im at a loss here and I definitely dont want to be forced into using the serial cable all the time.