One of the common issues we have as a research mathematics department is how to best work from home on an office workstation. The best solution we have found is vnc which allows a home user (on linux or windows, I'm not sure about Mac) to display an office desktop at home and run programs on that desktop as if you were sitting at it. This requires a reasonable network connection, but any DSL or cable modem seems fine. One big hitch for us has been that for this to work the desktop must allow outside access to the port on which the server is running and we normally don't allow that. In fact without special efforts, which may be hard under windows, this involves sending a cleartext password. Fortunately, there is another way to use vnc which greatly ameliorates the problem. With the desktop behind a firewall, run "vncserver :1". Then on the home system run "vncviewer -listen". Back on the office destop run "vncconfig -display :1 -connect HOME" where HOME is the hostname or IP address of the home system. Since the office desktop intiates the connection the firewall (if so configured) is happy. There is no password in this usage. Now the problem. Unfortunately the vncconfig program in the version of vnc-server distributed with SL302 has a bug and will not work. This bug has been fixed in newer versions though (see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114063). And at least for us the version of vnc and vnc-server from Fedora Core 2 work fine under SL302. -- John Franks <[log in to unmask]> Dept of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ