I am miffed by the complexities of trying to file share between a 7300 on 9.1 and a QS on Tiger. There seems so many variables! The help files and what actually happens seem not dovetail. What about the simplest possible thing? I have a red cross over ethernet cable (which I once by some miracle - it must have been - used to connect a couple of 7300s just to transfer files from one to the other, have forgotten all details) connected to the 2 machines. And i don't care anything about security or passwords or anything. What is the least i should do? Can someone at least give me the first 3 or 4 steps and when i have done them, i will come back. It is too much to ask anyone to go through everything! David Elmo