I just installed 8.0 on my new machine last night - so I now have linux on 2 machines which are connected through a router to my DSL modem. I managed to get access to the internet on both machines by choosing to "get IP address automatically" in the Yast2 network module. Also, I stumbled across the command "rcnetconfig -start" in the manual and tried it on both machines. This was what finally gave me a connection. Do I have to give this command every time I boot into linux? However I cannot ping either machine from the other. I want each machine to be able to "see" the other machine, share files, etc. I suspect that I need to set up NIS in order to do this (as you can see I don't know much about setting up a little home network...:-) Do I need to set up one machine as a server & the other a client? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! TIA, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:Cleary_Mike@emc.com Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- It said, "Requires Windows 95 or better", So I installed linux...