If you have gone to all the trouble of installing the VPN software on the roaming client PCs, is not the simple solution (as already suggested) simply to include the 'name' of the 192.168.0.254 machine in the 'hosts' file ? Tim -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug