Hi: Firstly, you need to know where to get DNS information for your local network. You won't be able to use machine names for the machines on your network until your machine knows where to find this information. I am going to assume that you aren't running your own DNS server (even a caching one), mainly because I don't remember how caching ones are set up. Edit /etc/resolv.conf. You probably have a DNS server or 2 in there already. Find out from your network admin where your local DNS server is located and add it in. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701
