Hey Foo and Creep! Its working !!!!! I have McAfee installed on both machines - It was fine on Vista but blocking the XP machine, so I granted it full access and bingo!

Thanks for your your help guys - IM OFF TO FRAG!!!!

Cheers
Terry - Spacedoggy

I disabled both firewalls on the vista and xp but still nothing. This is what I do..... Both machines have Q3 1.30 On the Vista Machine: Double Click Q3A Icon Select Multiplayer Select Servers Local - Game Type Free for all - Sort by Ping Time - Show Full - On - Show Empty - On Select - Create Selec...

Thanks - That get the game launched on the Vista machine, but when I start the XP I still cant find any server / game to join to - and yep - running the same Q3A on both machines.

Thanks for your help "creep" :) Yep, I just want to hook up the 2 pcs so I can play in one room, and my mate in the other room. Not via the net. So on the Vista machine, I start Q3A, then select multiplayer, then server "local" then create, then select a map, then LAN. The game t...

Hello - Thanks for reading this! I have a Vista and XP computer as well as some Macs connected by Airport Extreme except the pcs which are connected by cable into the back of airport. I wanted to play Quake 3 Arena via LAN and ive read all the posts re set up, but still cant get it to work. If I try...