Hi All, My win32 server is not in safe_mode but I can only use passthru for simple commands like "dir" and "type" but when I try to do say a "ping" it simply returns no output but no error either. Anyone have an idea what's going on? I have used it for ping in the past. Ultimately I plan to use it to launch local DB functions, but I can't even get it to ping. Thanks. <>< Ryan -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php