Setting 17" monitors on the box is normal. The CPU can handle it. Most of the connection cables aren't long enough to do otherwise anyway. :-( Openstep 4.2 on NeXT hardware does Windows Networking (Samba). If you have a printer you can even set up your entire NeXT machine as a postscript printer from Windows and have at it! There is also an Appletalk server available for it [free] that is a double-clickable application. You probably won't have much need for Netinfo. Nevertheless it's easiest to use the Simple Networking application in /NextAdmin, enter an IP address and set it up as a Netinfo server. Before doing this, go into /etc and copy the default netinfo directory s.t. you have a spare copy. So if you mess up your netinfo database while you're getting started you can boot in single user mode and start over. Also make a copy of the default /etc/hostconfig file. [Call them hostconfig.default and netinfo.default if you like] More specifically... cd /etc cp -r netinfo netinfo.default cp hostconfig hostconfig.default If you have any problems let me know... Thomas