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My attempts to connect my laptop & desktop computers, for file exchange through the parallel ports, is progressing. I have established that the connection is possible by using Window cable to cable connection succesfully & would save myself any further hassel if this did not truncate linux filenames when transfering from a CD rom. I am using Peanut linux (which I believe is based on Slakware) on both machines. Plip is installed as a module. /etc/hosts/ has 192.168.0.1 target 192.168.0.2 source on both machines. Then:- # ifconfig plip0 source pointopoint target netmask 255.255.225.255 up on desktop # ifconfig plip0 target pointopoint source netmask 255.255.255,255 up on laptop ifconfig shows plip0 OK but ping from one to another gets 100% packet loss. Telnet also fails to open a connection. The RTFM approach has been tried until my fingers bled & my brain exploded. I feel that I've made a leap but not yet a quatum one. Any help would be highly appreciated. Trevor Sansom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.