Ok guys , I'm sure you will all be proud.I finally got smart and realized that on my main machine I have two Netgear cards working with tulip perfectly fine.I simply poped Eth1 out of my main machine , and since tulip is already attempting to be used for eth0 on the second, I replaced eth0 with the netgear :-)..... Now I'm in yast at network address setup for eth0 .THe questions come (1) Eth1 is active on my main machine with the address of 192.168.0.1.Can I give eth0 on the second machine the address of 192.168.0.2? (2) If so , do I enter 192.168.0.1 as the default Gateway pointing to eth1 on the main machine? (3) Or do I setup the main machine as a DHCP server ? My goal is to have the Pentium as a terminal query the xserver on my main machine for a log in screen so as to have the ability to work one machine from two places..Tcp/ip but where to start?ssh, but where to start?xdm, but where to start? Thanks. Donnie