what version of icq are you using?? I have a windows2000 setup as a server connected to the internet and 2 win98 connected to it. And everything worked fine.
The only problem is that when i looged in as a user ( or anything ) on the sever, it stop allowing internet access to my win98 machines.... anyone know how to set this up??
Back to the question, you could tey to set your win98 machine with a ip address.
on the network screen where you install services and network portool. Click on the properties of TCP/IP,
and set the ip address as 192.168.0.? ( ? being the number of computer you define them, it could be 2,3,4,or 5 etc.. but don't use 1 becoz it is already used by your server.)
Then on the subnet typed in 255.255.255.0
See if that helps.