Still not working....

[poltr1]

I added both orac and tardis to the hosts file under C:\Windows\System32. I then tried to ping both the laptop and the desktop from both systems -- tardis from tardis, orac from tardis, tardis from orac, and orac from orac. tardis returns pings but orac does not, even from itself. I then tried pinging locahost, which worked. I also found that the LAN card had its own IP address, which I cleared out. But I'm still getting bupkis.

Thanks for the help so far. Keep it coming.