Crossover cable = Twisted Pair. Yes we are using that.
Enabled Guest on both machines. Even gave permission for each to access one another = made no difference, firewalled or not.
Also when the wizard was run it prevented the one host machine from accessing the net from a LAN (when connecting at another time all by itself) and only when the "Network Bridge" is removed did it allow browsing.
Back to the original issue. We did this once, but darned if I recall how it went.
Answer to one of your questions: the second machine cannot connect to the internet but the host machine can with no problems.
This is a royal pain in the arse. Thanks MS.
Grrrr.
Captain Over