Did you try removing the laptop connection from the hub and uninstalling the ICS 
clients from the W98 machines to see if you can get back to 'square one' again as 
it was before?








On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 11:44 am, AL Barrington wrote:
>I have a question about Getting 
>Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers:

>I'm helping a company with a 5 station peer to peer network on Windows 98se.  There 
>is a cable internet connection that they all share.  One day the boss brings in 
his 
>Windows XP laptop and connects it to the hub and trys to join the network.  During 
>the network setup wizzard on the laptop, he answered that the laptop would connect 
>to the internet via the LAN.  Later in the wizzard it still had him create an internet 
>connection sharing disk and instructed him to run it on all other computers in the 
>network.  The first computer he ran the disk on caused the whole network to act 
very 
>strange.  Now sometimes stations show up in the network neighborhood and sometimes 
>not.  One station can see none of the others at all, not even itself.   We've checked 
>all connections, properties and settings throughout the LAN.  All seem as they should. 
> What sort of corruption of the network from running XP's connection sharing is 
possible 
>and what if any, is the corrective action?
>

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