centos at 911networks.com wrote: > The admin does not want to do any change to deal with only 1 user > [me], so there is no other way than XP within vmware? > if you're the only one using this linux system, well, I guess I can see his POV. OTOH, if this Linux system is providing a business function, who's in charge of this administrator? sounds to me like he needs a slapdown.