On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:26:47 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote in the developers' list (where I have no business even asking anything) : I went and looked at that site, and it sounds good; but it uses dbus and hal, neither of which I ever heard tell of, and I don't even have man entries for them -- not that I'd likely be able to grasp them if I had them. Otoh, it's clearly meant to be maximally user-friendly once it's on a system. So I have a Very Dumb Question : can NM by any chance be used to *create* a LAN? I'm just a self-taught old fart with other priorities, but I'll soon have four or five machines running in this house (behind a router; one, maybe, completely isolated physically from the Net, which I suppose means no router either, and no admission to a LAN). It would be nice to be able to tell them to talk to one another -- share bookmarks, exchange files, use a common printserver, and so forth. At this point, afaict, setting the network up would have a learning curve I'm not ready to tackle. Someday, the hotshots (Bless their fertile brains!) will automate the setup process, to where the likes of me need do no more than at present with installation -- which has improved *vastly* from my point of view since RH 6.0, where I couldn't do it at all. The last place I asked (a LUG near me) didn't indicate that day had come yet -- so I'm still looking and hoping .... -- Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!