Malcom said "Are you sure this isn't a DNS issue, the long pause caused by it trying to resolve server? It could be an issue with your init scripts."
I don't know, I forgot to mention that I'm still relatively new to linux. I'm using an esmith server, which is basically a preconfigured redhat 5.0/6.0 server installation primarily for a small to medium WINDOWS network. The esmith server manual I dutifully downloaded, printed, binded, labelled and read had lots of pretty windows config screen shots, nothing on linux. The two times I've gone in to "manually" configure something, I was given templates of everything with warnings not edit the template. I stopped and left well enough alone. I did create an /etc/export entry, but I doubt it's actually doing anything as I'm using smbfs to mount directories off the server. The server provides DHCP (or is it DNS, I always get those mixed up) to the network of 1 iMac and 2 dual boot Windows XP/Redhat 7.3 machines. The server is spec'ed (according to esmith) for up to 40 users, so I doubt it's a hardware issue. Eth0 comes up quickly during boot and my PC always get's an IP without any pause. I run a 100 base network. the directories don't require passwords to access, but maybe I should include passwds in /etc/fstab. If that's the case, then is there a way I can "hide" the passwds? Mick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
