Unfortunately I have to have a working copy of Windows both for helpping my users and to cope with word .doc files. But unless you want to do lots of patching and pandering it's unfit to be connected with the internet. (Power... maybe, the net - definitely not without a chaperone) Can I use the DMZ facilities of SuSEfirewall2 to give it NAT protection? That would buy a lot of protection for not much upkeep. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166