Hey all, I am not real sure this is the right forum to list this in so if any of the Mods want to move it thats ok by me.

I have a simple home network with 2 computers each running win2k pro, SP4, patched up to date. For months I have used one computer to connect via dialup to the internet using internet connection sharing I connect the other machine to the internet through the first box. We have never had any problems until this afternoon when I tried to connect a friends win98 box into my network to access the internet. Suddenly my network is broken and no amount of restarts or reconfiguration manual or automatic will get the two to talk with each other again. when I look at the event logs on the first box I see:

The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer MELTDOWN that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{8F6F7A7F-A376-4C0A-. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
Meltdown being the name of box 2

This may sound stupid, and I feel I should know how to make these boxes work together, never have I had this kind of problem, I have also tried to manually configure IP addresses for these two using the common 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.5 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 for both, placing them both in a workgrop called HOME or whatever. Still they will not transfer packets between one another.

Someone please tell me what I am doing wrong before I go completely mad.