Sorry friends. I have to disturb you all again. My God, in my second system, I get (suddenly now) an error message: "starting RPC idmapd: Error: RPC MTAB does not exist" I do not find any update to rpc in updates-released. I did not touch any RPC file too. Any suggestions regarding RPC (only thing, I know about this is that it is Remote Procedure Calls) ;-) Thanks in advance. Regards, Rajesh -- G Rajesh, BSc,FCA,DISA(ICA), 'Lakshmi Nilayam' #115, Malligai Street, Ram Nagar, Dindigul, Tamilnadu 624005. Phone: (451)2424104