<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks Alan. I believe I have everything set up correctly, enabling eth0 and making all the correct selections under networking. The trouble appears to be that after the first "connect", lo once again takes over from eth0. Thanks for the hint on trying a previous version of ntfs-3g. I tried that with still the same result. So it must be some config file that is causing the trouble. Any ideas how I might fix same? I'm a bit of a newbie to all this, so don't even know which config file might be the culprit@ Maurice </body> </html>