I am working a run of five ten-hour nights at present - I'll return to the business of tweaking the home network on my next days off. I have set-up 'shared folders' on each machine - but still cannot 'see' them from the other machine. I'll try to ping each machine using IPCONFIG and take it from there...

Thanks again for the info - and to Foolestroupe for the musical content of the project - anyone else know any computer songs or parodies?

Cheers all

aussiebloke