Hi, I am able to connect & run my applications on solaris server. Connection details are as below, - "/etc/hosts" having details about NT to which other windows(98) machines r connected - subnetmask of both NT & Solaris same. - first thiree nos of NT & windows wk stations r same. All machines connected thru hub (8-port) How I would be able to, - 'rsh' from the Solaris machine to the NT machine and pipe the task manager results to a UNIX file - access files on my NT or Windows wk stations from solaris machine. - I had my SQL7.0 DB on NT, is it possible that other windows machines can run my application or program (in java or perl) to access db on NT? how I can do it? It will be very nice of u if u could send me the code & other n/w king details. I dont know much about solaris & networking issues. Regards Don