Eric, I'm afraid that won't work. Even though you are mounting that SCO box, you are executing from your Linux environment. So you won't be able to execute a SCO binary anyway you mount it from your Linux machine. The error below suggests that you have a permissions issue, but even if you resolved that problem you would not get the desired results. Your best hope for yielding the results you are looking for would to run rsh to get the output. However rsh is not secure and I wouldn't recomend using because of this even in a private network unless absoltutely necessary. Another option would be to SSH from the Linux box, you could automate this on the Linux Web Server using keys. There are at least a couple of other ways to do what you want but this should get you going on the right track. Hope this helps. Bill bill@billclark.net