Hey - Thanks to all who helped out with this. Turns out this user's machine didn't have the nameservers configured in /etc/resolv.conf --- mea culpa! --- and that was all that was needed. Thanks again - - John _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list