Well, I've began my journey into the 3,292 uses for netcat. To keep things simple I'm just cat'ing a file from machine A to a file on machine B. So my setup is this: On machine B: (IP 10.1.1.1) nc -l -n -v -p 8888 > somefile It says listening on [any] 8888 On machine A: (IP 10.1.1.254) cat /etc/hosts | nc -n -v 10.1.1.1 8888 And it says broken pipe. Any ideas where I've messed up here? I looked at the very LONG man page and in all the neat things you can do it never talks about moving entire hard drives over a network. Any ideas would be appreciated! -Brian