Remote IP Address Mask ?

I'm setting up a network with one XP Pro and one Windows ME system. The
XP Pro system is connected to the internet, so I have run the network
setup wizard on that, created a network floppy, and run that on the
WinME system.

I'm trying to scour through all the software that is stopping the
network from working. I'm hoping that the Nvidia Forceware Network
Access Manager is the only obstacle I'm having.

I can see that the WinME system is being blocked by the Nvidia Firewall,
as every time it's started up a mass of connection attempts are listed
as blocked on the Nvidia Firewall log.

In * Firewall / Advanced Configuration / IP Address/ * there is an
option to allow the IP address of the WinME system, but I don't know
what to put in the *Remote IP Address Mask* field. If I leave it blank
it defaults to * 0.0.0.0 *, and I'm still no further ahead with being
able to network these two systems.

Can anyone advise me where I can find this information out, as it's
doing my head in.

"Cuzman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm setting up a network with one XP Pro and one Windows ME system. The
> XP Pro system is connected to the internet, so I have run the network
> setup wizard on that, created a network floppy, and run that on the
> WinME system.
>
> I'm trying to scour through all the software that is stopping the
> network from working. I'm hoping that the Nvidia Forceware Network
> Access Manager is the only obstacle I'm having.
>
> I can see that the WinME system is being blocked by the Nvidia Firewall,
> as every time it's started up a mass of connection attempts are listed
> as blocked on the Nvidia Firewall log.
>
> In * Firewall / Advanced Configuration / IP Address/ * there is an
> option to allow the IP address of the WinME system, but I don't know
> what to put in the *Remote IP Address Mask* field. If I leave it blank
> it defaults to * 0.0.0.0 *, and I'm still no further ahead with being
> able to network these two systems.

Sounds likely that the address/mask pair are used to define an address
range, like in routing.

Suppose you want to allow just the machine with address 1.2.3.4; then you
would specify 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.255. If you wanted to allow 1.2.3.* (ie
anything as the last byte of the address), you would use
1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0.

Alex