what are you trying to do? is there any sample code? is there anything that is logged in the event logs? Simon

I am assuming that you are talking about 2 machines on the same LAN? if so.. if you try to ping the IP address rather than name does it work? if not then it sounds like a DNS issue. Simon

you won't need to put IIS on a CD.. just copy it onto a CD.. assuming that you copy across all custom dll's etc it will work on any machine that has .net framework installed on it Simon