i think. after adding a user that already existed on the system, and wiping that user's nessus config files it allowed me to connect and -- GASP -- it showed the plugins ! now if i could only get a fix to this NFS crashing issue.. nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ aphro@aphroland.org 12:13pm up 12 days, 21:14, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00