same with el-half, i disabled my firewall, my own and the xp one, but this made no difernce, and I can ping localhost. My host file contains a entery for localhost as 127.0.0.1, even if I try my computers name KELLY.mshome.net (mshome being my workgroup) I still cannot comunicate with the server, but my client machine can access the server.

This is a big problem for me as the web server I wish to use, has an admin interface only accessable through localhost, it can later be set to alow external access, but one must get in first, and my config file for the server is of no use, it already alows access to 127.0.0.1, and I added my client machine 192.168.0.69 but that was of no use, the client is locked out of the admin.

netstat does reveal a 0.0.0.0:80, and an entery for 127.0.0.1:9727 (my admin interface),

I can settle for apache, and set up a folder share of my www root directory, that is what im thinking now.