Guys, I've got two machines... 1) Pentium 2, Windows 95 2) Pentium 4, Windows XP Pro ...and they both have network( ethernet ) adaptors installed. They are connected by a 15meter(oo-er!) "Cross-over" cable... Anyway, I tried to run a multiplayer game of Doom95 and Quake II but the two computers don't seem to know about each other...is there something I'm missing? BTW - I've never done networking before, but I would like to learn the WinSock API...but I don't appear to be getting off to a good start... Any suggestions would be hot! ^_^

I seem to remember having issues with Win9x and Win2k/XP together...
Have you tried setting up file sharing? That'll at least tell you if the connection is working, since you'll be able to transfer data across.
If you can get file sharing working, then there shouldn't be any problem with Quake II (Never tried Doom95).

File sharing? Ummm...how do I go about doing that? O_O

( yes - I'm that new to the whole thing...)

I remmeber the hell involved with networking between NT and 9.x. In my memory, the one most common reason for them not playing nice was different user setups on the two machines. Have you tried using the same user name and passwords on both machines?

when using a crossover cable you need to setup static ip addresses for each machine

also, they need to be close, for example the two addresses could be
10.0.2.10 and 10.0.2.11

also, on the xp machine you'll probably need to add the ipx protocol to play doom online