Ive been reading all possible nfo on setting up networks and am getting more confused.................. I have a small home network of 2 win98 machines . one of the machines has a rack system with 2 hard drives...one is redhat.. one is win98..and i have been switching as necessary. i would like to able to access the other computer at all times. Eventually i will get more hardware and not need a rack system. however at the moment I need to share a printer from the redhat machine to the other win98 machine. what is the best way to go about this? Both are connected to the internet...i.e both have a modem so ppp sharing would be nice but not necessary . any suggestions? I get confused as to the ip address needed on each machine and the loopback address ( is it 127.0.0.0 ??? ) (.......i connect to the internet via an isp whose DNS is 203.0.178.191........) TIA dez -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.