First off I would like to say hello. I just joined the mailing list and am looking forward to enlightenment! (I'm a dork) Anyways, I also have a question in regards to linux. I have two machines setup on my works network, one is a redhat 7.1 box and the other is a SUSE 7.1 box. Neither of these machines can ping hostnames on our network but they can ping hostnames such as yahoo.com or linux.com. I can map to network drives if I use the IP address of the machine I am mapping too. Our network is mainly windows nt 4.0 or windows 2000 servers/workstations and as I had stated I can access the shares on those machines if I use the IP address. For the life of me, I can not figure out what my be wrong or what I need to fix in order to correct this problem. I have specified the correct DNS servers, I have also specified a non-used IP address on our network. My only guess right now is that since we are using token-ring instead of ethernet it might be messing things up but I am not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Once again, I am excited to be a part of this mailing list and look forward to communicating with you all. Thanks Tom Sapp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com