understanding that the NWLINK requirement seems to be some soft of driver (nwlink.vxd). Perhaps it seems from Novell, their Netware or Netmonitor client(I'm guessing?). The software I'm using is extremely straight forward and was written in Visual Basic, it uses an access database backend and thats about it. It needs absolutely nothing special and for sure no network access. Is there some way to bypass this? Last is my configuration for the dlls in wine: [DllOverrides] ; some dlls you may want to change "ntdll" = "builtin" "oleaut32" = "builtin, native" "ole32" = "native" "comdlg32" = "builtin, native" "shell32" = "builtin, native" "shfolder" = "builtin, native" "shlwapi" = "native, builtin" "shdocvw" = "builtin, native" "system" = "builtin" "advapi32" = "native" "msvcrt" = "native, builtin" "mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin" "mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin" "msi" = "native, builtin" "gdi" = "builtin" "gdi32" = "builtin" "user" = "builtin" "user32" = "builtin" "*" = "builtin, native" Hopefully I included everything necessary. This solution with WINE will really save the school I work for a LOT of money in upgrading and administration costs!!! Please, any and all help will be appreciated. Thank you, Mitchel