the client side. Even though they are connecting (via samba) to the linux servers they are not getting internet access. They manage to ping the nic on the server but nothing on the backbone and obviously nothing on the net. The servers are abviously not routing the packets. Can this be simply solved by fixing the route.conf or do i need to set up masquerading on all the servers? Should I also be doing something to the samba config file? Thanks Mark __________________________________________________ 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