Thanks; that did the trick. I also found that, apparently, if I select
root from tcp, type in fs and auth IPs and my user name, then wait for
a very long time, I get a prompt from the auth server. The problem
is that this takes a VERY long time. Not fun. What networking option
did you use? I'm thinking that may be at stake?

John

I also had the problem that it took very long to log into the vmware plan9 system with drawterm the firste couple of times. I don't have that problem any more and I don't know why.
Someone on this list pointed out that it may be something in the profile. Throw some echos in and see where it uses all your time.
-Patrick