It turns out I had a free hour this afternoon and decided to see what I can do about the server box (see previous posts over the last three days). I thought I'd try and see what "standard" software is running. Interesting results. ssh was running and no configuration was necessary. I was able to run some GUI apps from the server and have the graphics appear on my own Linux box (how cool is that...). Of course I tried it on an ME box with PuTTY and it complained there was no X client under Windows. OK so I have to download an X client for ME... Any recommendations? The Mac (system 8.1) comes later this weekend. Then I tried using ftp. The results were interesting to say the least. I was able to connect. I could enter a user ID but it wouldn't take it without authentication. It didn't get as far as a password. I fiddled around with it for a few minutes before I thought about adding a user to the ftp group? My free time ran out before I was able to give it a try. Am I close to getting this working? I've been reading the man pages and the /etc/ftpusers file contains a list of local users forbidden from using ftp, correct? If I can get this up and running (or a similar file transfer program) it solves a lot of my needs. I've still got to find if there is a Windows version of rsync. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------