First, thanks to Jerry and Chris. Nice to get a response. Second, make no assumptions about my knowledge base. This is new turf, but I will try to understand the info given to me. Here are the results of route and ipchains -L. Looks to my untrained eye that I have no firewall up to speak of (which is ok for now) and the route table means nada to me. I do not have routing on, AFAIK. Should I? I have always just assigned ip's to my machine and the win98 machine and started samba to have both machines networked and the ability to print on the win98 printer. Apparently I've opened a can 'o worms with dod and mason? Hope this means something to you all. Ifconfig shows the right IP for my machine, eth0 is up, lo is up, ppp0 is something new, but it shows the IP's for my ISP, which it should(?) because dod is dynamic. (always used Kppp before) Lord help me, my head hurts. What's weird, is that sometimes my machine (linuxbox) shows up in Net Neighborhood on the win98 machine, but still can't ping. Thanks again, Tom Sorry, this table is kind of cobbled up, didn't word wrap, so I got out the scissors and glue ;-) Chain input (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt source destination ports NoSpoof all ------ anywhere anywhere n/aChain forward (policy ACCEPT): Chain output (policy ACCEPT): Chain outputN (0 references): Chain forwardN (0 references): Chain inputN (0 references): Chain NoSpoof (1 references): target prot opt source destination ports RETURN all ------ anywhere anywhere n/a n/aDENY all ------ 192.168.99.99 anywhere n/aDENY all ------ 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere n/aDENY all ------ loopback/8 anywhere Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface xyp133.navix.ne * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default xyp133.navix.ne 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 -- TRBishop tb64710@ltec.net Registered Linux User #12043 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/