On Mar 19, 17:19, MTPro(a)aol.com wrote: with a hard drive and an optical drive. The other is a 33MHz '040 (Turbo?) with just a hard drive. Both power on fine, do their system test and then say loading from network. The picture looks like a coaxial "T" connector with a cable that has "data" rolling through it. First, put a 50-ohm terminator on that connector, so the NeXT thinks it is connected to a live (but very small!) network. Then read the NeXT FAQ: http://www.peanuts.org/faq-serve/cache/66.html They will not do anything else. I've been going crazy looking on the internet for days, but have not found a way to bypass this. I know you can "boot" into single user mode and then reset passwords, but how? The FAQ describes how to do it. I recently acquired a slab, and had to do that. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York