Hello everyone, I haven't googled this one yet, that's next after i hit send, i'm wondering if any of you have seen this one. I've got DSL with a dsl modem and a wireless router. I've got one machine that's far enough away so that running a wire isn't practical, hence the reason the wireless router, and a second machine even further away. Both of these machines are within wireless range. The machine that's closer to the wireless router has two nics in it, the wireless one which connects up to the network and a regular rj45 internal. I had the thought that i could assign the wired nic a static ip then use network connection sharing to allow the computer further away to share the machine's internet connection. The two computers are connected by a switch. My problem is that whenever the wired card is up, meaning it has an ip, the wireless card won't see the gateway, which is 192.168.0.1, take out the cable and refresh the dhcp lease on the wireless card and the gateway once again returns. The wireless card has an address on the 192.168.0.x range and i'm statically assigning the wired nic an address on that subnet though outside the dhcp server's lease. Both machines are running xp pro. This might or might not be related to this issue, more than likely it's a symptom of the same issue. I want to map network drives on startup, so i loaded in a drive mapping script in the system's user configuration section of the local profile. A wired nic it would have worked, since it's going wireless i am getting the error "No network provider was able to validate the path". Any suggestions. Thanks. Dave.