Thanks Markus, I tried your suggestion - it didn't work - but thanks for the help...

I guess this is just one of those: "Gee, didn't you do [this]?" kind of things, but, for the life of me, I haven't a clue. I am just starting to get around within Debian/Knoppix, some things I recall from my old'in days of using cryptic "unix" commands, and some, I am at a complete loss of. This is one of those.

I have at least thrown in a firewall w/ everything being blocked from the outside world, but it still isn't the right thing to be doing. e.g. using Root for things a "stripped down" user should be doing.

I guess we are all "just learning" as we go through the transition from [place your old OS here] to the most dynamic, changing, and growing popularity of Debian/Linux/Red Hat/Suse/Mandrake/etc... OS. It is extremely a different bread of beast, but, I will learn it, and I want to.

Thanks for your help, I guess I will just sit and wait for the "all inspiring" reply to this post, that will shed light on that "try this", and POOF, it works, kinda thing.

Waiting for an answer,
Cuddles