OK. We are golden with respect to getting the network reactivated on the Windows guest. One down, infinity to go. Thanks for the help. There was one wrinkle in all this. I had to log on to the guest as a local administrator to configure the nic driver. Windows explorer (not IE) reported a server error when I logged in as the domain admin and tried to open the computer management window. Explorer.exe server execution failed. And in consequence I could do absolutely nothing until I logged in with a local user profile. This is apparently due to the fact that Win7 handles roaming user profiles somewhat differently than WinXp. Evidently, if you do not have a network connection to a remote user profile then the OS chokes. Just a heads up for anyone else in this situation. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3