OK, so I installed Fedora Core and seem to have almost everything going for me save two items...the first is that I need this above to communicate with my (fire-walled) mailserver. Well, the story is that my office institution hands out some rpm files which use kerberos5 authentication and athena something or the other to print. These rpm files use krb5-workstation rpm but the ones that came with RH9. If I go with the new one, further down the assembly line, I get the search for libcom_err.so.3 and alas, there is nothing!! What are my options? The most sane option (asking them to upgrade) will not work -- they are still testing for RH9 and here am I bugging them for FC1 which they haven't even decided is a good thing....I fear they will much sooner shut me down (even though I did put in a request). Well, anyway, can someone please advise? Oh, yes, the second issue is something I will talk about later, with a different heading.... Thanks and best wishes! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree