Hi all, I have sent a few messages on the suse-linux-e group but I thought I should better send a message to the appropriate group since you will probably have a few answers for the questions that I have. I have a small network of 3 PCs running Win9X and a SuSE7.2 box acting as sever. The Server has DHCPd running fine, Samba running fine so all the Win machines logon as if they were attached to a WindowsNT network; all this works absolutely perfect!!!! Now the problem rised when they asked that they could serf the internet. So I launched Squid and they could all surf simple pages and download stuff that some pages offer to download (utilities, progs etc.) The problem... =========== A user comes up to me and asks why he cannot work with mirc and winmx. I checked with the linux-e group and they told me that I have to launch SuSEfirewall. So since I read that there is a newer version out, I managed to download SuSEfirewall2 and managed to get iptables as well. Installed both, configured SuSEfirewall2 configuration based on a setup that a SuSE user sent me. I execute SuSEfirewall2 --test, and I get the following message: Found named running, trying to execute Forward_DNS (I am away from the server now, so please bear with me....) A few moments later.... Trying to Forward_DNS. Found named running but no DNS server to forward..... I executed rcnamed status and found that rcnamed was not running. I am still trying to understand what is going on.... When I sit on a Win9X PC, I try to ping www.suse.com, but nothing happens!!! Can someone please help me with this? It is the only thing that is left for me to do and I still cannot understand what to do; perhaps because I am such a newbie with SuSE and Linux... Who knows?!? thank you soo much for your reply! Chris