First i would like to THANK THE PARTICIPANTS of this list. The postings of questions, answeres and advice over the past month, particularly in regards to kernel configuration and compiling have helped solve quite a few problems i was experiencing with my system especially a peskie seg-fault error upon shutdown (probably due to conflicting drivers in the precompiled kernel). Second of all i would like some advice in networking two computers i have at home. I would like to get them working first before i attempt to network my 6 computers at work. The computers at home are COMPAQs: 1) 133mhz pentium 1.75 gig hard drive 72 megs ram sound card fax modem 1 parallell port 1 9 pin seriel port 10/100 ethernet card (2 weeks old) 1 3.5 floppy drive 1 non bootable cd rom dual boot suse 7.2 pro / win 95 2) 100 mhz pentium 1 gig hard drive 24 megs ram 1 parallell port 1 9 pin seriel port 10 ethernet card (original card) 1 3.5 floppy drive win for workgroup 3.11 partitioned about 600 megs space for linux only suse 6.4 boot floppy works on this computer. if anyone has any suggestions on how i can begin i would greatly appreciate it especially what services i should be running to get them to talk to each other. thanks in advance harry