Hi there everyone... first post

Note: I like to ramble on a lot, skip to the bold/italic/underlined text below if you just want my problem.

Well, I have a MS-DOS 6.22 machine (as stated in the subject) and you can probably guess that the box is running real DOS .

Well, I have an ethernet card - specifically a Realtec RT(L)8029(AS) (words in brackets sometimes admitted) in this 400MHz Celeron with 32MB of RAM and 160MB of HD space... this was just thrown "quickly" together from parts I had "around", I plan to upgrade (especially the HD ) and SWITCH to Linux or FreeDOS or something else at one stage, I'm just fooling around at the moment.

The point of explaining all that?
I'd really like my problem to GET resolved... but don't push yourselves too hard, as it'll be, well, wasted effort

Okay, now for the problem.

The card works, I have its packet driver, as well as PCIODI.COM (which I'll explain below).

TINY, my "DOS-based VNC system" works absolutely wonderfully, except it requires use of either the PCTCP or Novell Client32 TCP/IP stacks. I initially (after a long search) found the required PCTCP files off the net, and got everything working - I connected VIA another of my PCs (specifically my "main" box) to the MS-DOS machine (wow).

Then I discovered that the PCTCP stack system had been sold and was no longer available, except if I paid $100+ to its new owner.

YIKE.

So... I then began the long, long journey of Novell Client32.

And I managed to get it to "go"!!!

I first load the packet driver, then LSL, then PCIODI, then IPXODI, then NIOS, uncountable NLMs (including my network card's NLM)... and it shows the magic DHCP screen... and BOOM, it gets an IP off of DHCP.

My problem:
I can connect locally to 1.2.3.7 via the TINY client and up comes the display.
However... I can't connect via the internet (ie 'truly' remotely) and view the display.
What's so weird is that... REMOTE (ie out-of-my-network) clients can type and the keys are sent... yet the display doesn't update.

So, to sum up, I think that this is a routing issue between my router and the PC, and not so much to do with the actual machine itself.

I did try giving the machine my external "internet" IP, but that naturally didn't work

?!?!?!?!

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give!
-dav7