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A few other things, are both machines running the same Frame Type in the
Network/Properties/IPX/Properties? One last thing, over a LAN I have seen
problems between NT and W95 machines even if they use the same frame type
etc. Also make sure the version of Diablo is the same 1.0 doesn't see 1.2
and visa versa. Good luck!

Chris Williamson <chr...@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU> wrote in article
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> Kevin Forster (ke...@megaram-comp-sys.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : I am having trouble playing Diablo over an IPX Network.
> 
> : Neither machine can see a game running on the other machine.
> 
> : It is a Peer to Peer network (2 machines) and I can use the network
> : fine for normal windows activities.  One of the machines is hooked up
> : to the internet via TCP/IP and I have been told by Diablo Tech support
> : that this is the problem and to contact my ISP to sort it out.
> 
> : My ISP told me that the only solution would be to either buy another
> : machine to play Diablo or to not play it at all.
> 
> I am running IPX and Diablo on two machines (peer-to-peer) with one (or
both)
> connected to the internet via IP simultaneously without a problem.  You
might
> want to check your bindings and all the various settings under the IPX 
> protocol.  I assume you can mount drives using the IPX protocol?  Make
sure you
> disable the file sharing binding on IP so it is forced to use IPX.
> 
> Alas, I cannot give you a clear step-by-step procedure, but I did want to
let
> you know this is possible and I dont see how it has ANYTHING to do with
your
> dialup other than that you may want to disable dialup from using IPX. 
Use
> IP only for dialup and IPX only for the Ethernet card and you should be
fine.
> Just keep looking for the term 'binding' in the help and control panels.
> 
> Christopher
> Author of Championship Spades
> http://www.dq.com/spades.htp
>