Carlos, Thanks for your reply; see my comments below. Mark <snip> | |> We installed a new SuSE 8.2 machine as a web server, and enabled the |> remote desktop sharing feature to enable us to administer |the machine |> remotely, graphically. | |You can use administration tools like YaST without doing that... And we do from time to time. But it's much easier to do many file system tasks from the GUI (and I'm old enough to remember when real servers didn't even come with video cards...) ;-) | |> logging in at the SuSE machine's console also has the screen rendering |> the Microsoft fonts just fine). But no joy when connecting remotely. |> Our hope is | |I have no experience with that; but my guess is that is a |"local" problem, not the remote Linux machine. Well, then I didn't make myself clear... I agree that the rendering quality has to do with the local Windows machine, but the fact that I can't choose MS fonts in Control Center when viewing an exported X session running KDE in a VNC window presumably is entirely a function of the remote Linux machine. Unless I've missed something??? Best regards, Mark L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Cell: (917) 597-2057 Email: LMStone@RNoME.com Web: http://www.RNoME.com