We currently use RM Connect 2.3 where a student logs on with username and password and is then presented with their own desktop and a topic manager where they can choose the topic they wish to use (could be DTP, Science, Word Processing etc.). Icons for the appropriate apps then appear on the desktop. Any documents saved automatically go into that pupil's 'MyWork' folder on the server. Only that pupil (and those with necessary permissions) can acces this folder. To install an application across the network you use a workstation, run an app which does a scan of all relevant areas of the local and network drive and the registry, then launches new app's install routine, then does a similar scan and makes a package of the differences. The package can then be allocated to all or some machines on the network. OK. If I were using Linux and Samba, how would all this work for me? Many thanks indeed. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000