on another note.. and to add to that ipx spx suggestion (which was quite good), net beui is also a simple fast useless (outside of windows world) protocol that won't require any configuration outside a unique netbios name for both machines. why torment yourself with tcpip if you are not going on the internet? Not sure if netbeui still ships with XP or any MS product but it was their flagship networking protocol, when time was...
Not being terribly familiar with Novell protocols (but, apparently dependent on them to make everything run smoothly), I assume that NetBEUI and NetBIOS are related? The IPX/SPX protocol in XP is actually called the "NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol", and it also installs "NWLink NetBIOS" automatically.
The last time I used real Novell for anything, was under Windows 95.
