Hi all, don't kill me for this one now... I have tried and tried searched Internet but I can not understand what is wrong. My work computer has SuSE 9.3 and I've been trying to share a dir to my private Windows 2000 Professional machine. What I wanted to do was to set the IP of the SuSe to static. After booting the SuSe it won't connect to internet but it has access to my local network. How is this possible? I can ping the local servers but not external, host command does not give any results at all. My NETGEAR shows the SuSE as 192.168.111.101 which is a DHCP address but I can ping 192.186.111.54 from my W2K machine which is the IP I tried to set for my SuSE? What can I do? Btw the SuSe is in a docking station and the laptop's NIC is not configured, only the docking station NIC. This is how I had it before. (Compaq n600C) I use a NETGEAR WGT624(?) router which all my computers are connected to. -root@timofej:/etc/samba- > rcnetwork restart Shutting down network interfaces: eth0 device: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VM (KM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42) eth0 No configuration found for eth0 Nevertheless the interface will be shut down. eth0 configuration: done eth1 device: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) eth1 configuration: eth-id-00:02:b3:a7:9f:c4 done Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . done Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 done eth0 device: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VM (KM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42) eth0 No configuration found for eth0 unused eth1 device: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) eth1 configuration: eth-id-00:02:b3:a7:9f:c4 eth1 (DHCP) . . IP/Netmask: 192.168.111.101 / 255.255.255.0 eth1 IP address: 192.168.111.54/24 done Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . done ifconfig: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:A7:9F:C4 inet addr:192.168.111.101 Bcast:192.168.111.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:b3ff:fea7:9fc4/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:18600 (18.1 Kb) TX bytes:14147 (13.8 Kb) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:413 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:413 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:32509 (31.7 Kb) TX bytes:32509 (31.7 Kb)