Connectivity Problems

[William Hooper]

William Hayworth said:
> To Whom It May Concern:
>
>     I run a small household network containing three computers.  I would
> like
> to initiate communication between two of them, a Dell desktop being the
> server, and a Dell laptop being the viewer.  I have tried using VNC to do
> so.
> This did not work, so I attempted to ping one computer from the other.
> This
> did not work either.  I am currently using a Linksys Router/Wireless
> Access
> Point/4-Port Switch to administer my network as a DHCP server.  The server
> machine is running ZoneAlarm Pro and Norton AntiVirus.  The viewer
> computer is
> running Computer Associates' InoculateIT.  How can I fix this problem so
> that
> there is connectivity and so I can use VNC?  Thank you so much in advance.

Have you tried without ZoneAlarm in the way?  I assume you have Microsoft
operating systems, so post the output of "ipconfig" (I think that works on
the Win9x/ME series, but I'm not sure).

-- 
William Hooper