Well the cable dosn't specifically have crossover marked on it but it did come from a packet marked as Crossover Cable Cat.5e UTP 10m.
Ping works fine, with or without the firewall loaded.
Ipconfig /all results in a window that shuts down so quickly that it is impossible to tell what the results were.
Looks as though the problem is sorted...
Hint on usenet suggested that one needed to have the same users set up on each PC running 2000.
After setting up the users on Holly\'s machine (with the same passwords) her machine was visible....
Gawd knows why the users need to be the same on each machine.........