Thanks to Tony and Kevin. As I replied to them:-
It was only the Kubuntu installation on hat particular machine that wouldn't allow the new user account to access the LAN/'Net via the gigabit switch. Worked fine with the 10/100 switch, and the gigabit switch worked fine booting from a LiveCD.
AS the installaton was Kubuntu 6.06 I decided to cut my losses and take the easy way out. Have installed LinuxMint KDE "Cassandra" ( Ubuntu Feisty based) and now I have an updated OS that has no problems wit the gigabit switch.
Funny thing is that anoter PC also running Kubuntu 6.06 runs fine wit the gigabit switch. May be chip-type related - who knows?
Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
