I stumbled across the solution by chance. A previous installation of Zonealarm had not been completely removed and was still exercising some power over my network, but not in any configurable way. ...

There is no firewall on (what I believe to be) the offending W98 machine and there never has been, so the problem must lie with something else. It certainly acts like it *is* firewalled though, as...

I have almost exactly the same problem. Two machines, A and B, connected via crossover cable between two 100 mbps ethernet cards.

Machine A: Windows XP with internet connection sharing running on...

Does anyone know anything about the Rebus HR database system, particularly what system (if any) it is based on?

It sounds like a pretty obscure system in itself so I can't imagine they've...