It sounds like you need something a lot more basic than what we've been giving you so far. I'd been under the assumption that you had a functioning network, and you don't seem to even have that yet.
Yup. These are my very first steps in LAN land. I've been thinking about it before. Ethernet on Mk2 added the final drop to the bucket.

WINS / DNS, IP Address / Mask, Gateway Address
Thanks for the explanation. I figured it would need something like this. I’ll try this and see what happens.

You need either a hub or a crossover cable
I figured that and decided to try a cross-over first. One device less to worry about, right?

Try that stuff and see if it gets you any farther.
I'll do and let you now. Will keep notes so folks later on don't run into the same problems. Thanks for the assistance so far

Henno
mk2 nr 6