Here's your other post: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=133157 If you're just networking two computers with no shared internet connection, you can just use a crossover cable. If you insist on using the switch, connect the two computers via Cat5/5e/6 to ports on the switch. Don't connect them to the uplink one, since it is for connecting the switch to a router, broadband modem, another switch, etc. With either of these methods, you will probably need to put IP's on them manually since switches don't provide DHCP. Is this where you are needing help, setting up TCP/IP on the Windows boxes?