any helpful computer gurus out there?

[mspiegle]

regardless of anything else, if the computers can ping each other via IP, it is a windows issue, not networking.

[EVOIIIM3]

1st you are setting up a LAN, not a WAN.

same bloody thing :P

static IP addresses are an option, but if you are able to ping your other computers then that won't solve anything.

can you ping your router? it's probably at 192.168.0.1

I'm guessing you have something else setup wrong.

oh, and there is no "DOS" in Win2k/XP. "command" gives you an emulated dos shell, "cmd" gives you the NT32 command line shell.

Actually they are totally different, one is local, and one is wide, setting up a LAN is much easier then a WAN.

DHCP or static doesn't matter as long as you have the IP, or the computer name.

DOS is still part of the OS, it's just the non GUI interface, if you can master command line you can do anything with a win-tell box.

[nando]

DOS is still part of the OS, it's just the non GUI interface, if you can master command line you can do anything with a win-tell box.

NO NO NO! DOS was part of Windows 3.1, Windows9x/ME, but NEVER Windows NT/2k/XP. The only "dos" in XP/2k is emulated and you can't run real mode dos applications because DOS isn't native to either OS! :)

[EVOIIIM3]

DOS is still part of the OS, it's just the non GUI interface, if you can master command line you can do anything with a win-tell box.

NO NO NO! DOS was part of Windows 3.1, Windows9x/ME, but NEVER Windows NT/2k/XP. The only "dos" in XP/2k is emulated and you can't run real mode dos applications because DOS isn't native to either OS! :)

Well, lets agree to disagree. DOS is very much part of of windows boxes, just not in the same since it was years ago, older versions of windows were running on top of DOS, now it's the other way around, but DOS is still there, if you ever have to do system level repairs or do higher level networking it's all done in DOS, it's also how all the computers get hacked.

I'm also a MCSE, and MCP, and work as a Sys Admin, so I do this stuff every day, and it pushed me over the edge that I now have only Mac's at home and my office computer is a Mac.