I'm a new member to submitting to the list, but I've been reading the mail for some time. I now have a query which someone may be able to help me with. Our school runs a Research Machines Connect 3 network, using Windows XP on the desktop. As a dedicated Linux user I have, in my office, an old machine running Suse 8.1 (too lazy to upgrade!) which I can set up to access the network easily using Samba, and can access our broadband connection through the proxy server. What more would I want to do! Talking recently to our accounts manager with RM, he said that Connect 3 will only run with Windows machines and there is a danger in connecting either an Apple or a Linux machine to the network "because of the DNS server running under Windows". This seems total clap-trap to me, and a ploy to ensure no-one infects their network with some inappropriate, but superior, OS. Any comments? Am I being blind to some obvious problems I might have caused? Thanks Mike Turnbull St Mary's School, Shaftesbury,