I was trying today to set up a LAN connection on a clients machine (ME),
remotely, via VNC over a dialup connection, in order to connect to an ADSL
router.

I can connect to the ADSL router from outside her network.
Her network is a single machine.
The ADSL router 'reports' as far as status lights and so on goes, that the
LAN is connected.

I've tried setting both static and dynamic IP addresses on the ME machine. I
don't get any error messages, and have rebooted the machine, as prompted.
But still I get no icon in the taskbar (I assume I should?) and can't ping
the LAN address of the router. I could understand the 2nd if I'd got the
subnet wrong or something, but with a DHCP assigned address that shouldn't
be a problem. I've tried it both ways, with the router acting as a DHCP
server to a dynamically addressed client, and with fixed IPs (in a private
address range  - 192.168.0.xxx etc.). She says the light on the NIC is on
OK.

Any ideas? This is probably the first time a cable has been plugged into
this NIC, and I don't think the machine was originally ME. 98 then upgraded
I think. But if the card and TCP/IP attached to the card are in the list of
network interfaces presumably that means the drivers and have been installed
OK, no?

TIA, Mike MacSween