I'm using windows XP with the dial up account on that. I know it's a backwards operation but my debian system never authenticates a conncetion for the internet. So I can never dial with it. What I can't seem to get working is the internet on the debian system with the gateway pointing to my Windows XP System... are their scripts of something that I need to load or how do I fix this. I've set the connection in windows to share over the network. :D vinz