I have been working with trying to run nfs through the firewall . Is it correct that I must set my open ports during the install, as I see no way to set them with the security cfg mge later on. is it just my distro that I am using, I are running several versions rh9 from sam's books, fedora from sam,s books and a download from a rh mirrow, and they all run the same. I saw mention of being able to download a secruty manager, simular to the version used druing the install. but at this moment have not been able to find it. seems like a can run samba, nfs, ssh all ok with the firwall disabled but nothing with it on &/customized. anyone with si,mulare exeperiances, and fixes. will try dl a running the fc2 this weekend. catharp.bellsouth.net www.48lanes.com