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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

>Let us know what version of Windows your planning to run, connection 
method, so forth. Somebody will know, or know someone who does.

Thanks, David and Steven.

On the computer (I call it ASUS, because of the motherboard) running (at 
this time) Windows 98 First Edition, I added TCP/IP protocol for the 
Ethernet adapter, and set the IP address to 198.168.1.3

"I want NetBIOS over TCP/IP"  and "I want to give others
access to my files" are both set.

Rebooted, per message box.

And right-clicked drive E: and set sharing to full, no password, shared 
as E

On the other computer, let's call it   dell , currently running BL3.32,
 I edited /etc/hosts to include   192.168.1.3   asus

ifconfig -a results in
eth0  bla bla   inet addr:192.68.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255   
Mask:255.255.255.0    bla bla

The computers are linked by a crossover cable between ethernet cards.
The light on it is lit.
At least after I say on  dell
ping asus

Which results in stuff like  
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3:  icmp_seq=0  ttl=128 time=0.5 ms

but when I say
smbclient \\\\asus\\E

the response is

Added interface ip=127.0.0.1  bcast=127.255.255.255  nmask=255.0.0.0
error connecting to 192.168.1.3:139  (Connection refused)
Connection to asus failed

Please let me know what additional info to provide so as to diagnose and 
fix this.

Oh, I just opened a DOS Window on  asus , and said
ping 192.168.1.1

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  1ms, Average =  0ms

Thanks a lot,

Sheldon Isaac