Hi Eric, I have 2 entries under /etc/hosts. 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 user-laptop I can ping successfully between these 2 IP's with ssh localhost, ping user-laptop and vice-versa. Thanks! Alexis Electrical Engineering University of British Columbia Alexis, Can you successfully ping localhost? What are the contents of /etc/hosts on your machine? Is there an entry such as "127.0.0.1 localhost"? - Eric _________________________________________________________________ 30 days of prizes to be won with Hotmail. Enter Here. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9729709