As near as I can tell, my old man doesn't know anything at all about the Novell server. He is using exactly that philosophy: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I, on the other hand, like the philosophy, "If it ain't broke, you aren't screwing around with it enough"... (At least, for home use). The Novell server -I think- is only being used to store files. It is a minimal home network to distribute broadband service throughout the house, and I don't believe the way they have it set up requires a server at all. But I don't tell him this. It used to be a real server at my dad's clinic. Hans