NeXT question

Ok...I'm having a bit of trouble networking my NeXT with other machines, specifically my Mac-clone. I have a piece of software on my Mac called Vicomsoft SurfDoubler and it acts as a gateway out to the 'net for other machines connected to it by way of ethernet. I generally use this to easily download files from the 'net directly to other machines and have set it up pretty easily using it's built-in DHCP server using both other Mac's and Window's machines. Today, after recoving from a hard disk crash on my NeXTstation I decided to load an older version of Ominweb and a few other programs. Unfortunately, I can't get the NeXT and Mac to talk to each other over the 10base-T ethernet link, using a twisted patch cable so I don't have to have a hub installed. It's pretty obvious that I don't know what I'm looking at as far as the NeXT setup. It's running NeXTstep 3.3 (Academic bundle with User & Developer, with Patch 2, and Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1). I'm also using a CD called 'NeXTstep Objectware, Summer 1995', which is full of 3rd party product demos, internet tools and drivers, which is where Omniweb came from. Does anyone have any ideas? BTW, the NeXTstation Color does fall under the 10-year rule for this list since it was introduced in 1990, though the version of the OS I'm running came out in '95. Thanks Jeff -- Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems: Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757