no -- SER can be configured to take a mysql server at another host using the db_url parameters, e.g.: modparam("usrloc|acc|auth_db|group", "db_url","sql://user:password@dbhost.com/ser_db_name") -jiri At 02:01 PM 6/5/2003, Michael Kane wrote: >Does MySQL have to reside on localhost? > > >Michael Kane -- Jiri Kuthan http://iptel.org/~jiri/