David, Been a while since we spoke, I would confirm that the NSCONTROL START;OVERRIDE works, this will 'ignore' some of the mismatch issues, i would guess and say at some point you attempted to recover from a CSLT on a different system, and brought in a 'mix' if you will of NET.SYS alternative would be to purge @.NET.SYS and restore from a known good backup, * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *