Do you by any chance have a firewall program on your win98 machines?
Like Zonealarm or something else?
Probably has nothing to do with it, but remove all spyware stuff

> Roman Rokytskyy wrote:
>
> > > So, I beg you, please could anyone help me?
> >
> > Just to be sure: do you have TCP/IP protocol set up on your win98

machine?

> >
> > Can you execute "ping 192.168.0.1" and "telnet 192.168.0.1 3050"?
> >
> > Roman
>
> Yes, re PING, about telnet I did not try yet, actually the machine

is in

> another city.