> BTW: does dce1.2 dced do anything that dce1.1 rpcd can't do? Quite a lot. To start with, it's designed to have been the basis of X session control, Corba ORB, etc. For details, see http://www.opengroup.org/rfc/rfc47.3.html /r$ -- Zolera Systems, Your Key to Online Integrity Securing Web services: XML, SOAP, Dig-sig, Encryption http://www.zolera.com