>when I tried to run this code a non-developers computer it gave
>me an error 1733. what needs to be included? winsock.dll?
>also I'm on a win2k machine while the other computer is win9x.

You need MSWinsck.ocx on the other machines and it needs to be registered (regsvr32 mswinsck.ocx). However, I don't know what the distribution terms are for this OCX. It's probably freely distributable by MS but you need to determine that for your self.