>What is he looking for ? servers ? where can this be changed ? Yep it is looking for a server. Try xpilot -join <name of server machine> Cheers, Mark -- Mark Brinicombe amb@physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk Research Associate http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~amb/ Department of Physics tel: 0171 873 2894 King's College London fax: 0171 873 2716