Hi, This is about 2 basic tasks required for development, but I don't know how to do them with Ant. Can, with Ant running ont my NT development workstation, 1° - transfer files to a remote - (secured) - Linux server. 2° - launch a script on a remote - (secured) - Linux server. To do (1°), I installed samba on the - onsecured - Linux server, and mapped it to a drive on my NT workstation. This way, I can use an Ant copy task. This would not work if there was no Samba on the target Linux machine and/or the machine is secured (ssh) To do (2°), I must manually switch to a ssh session, and type the command on the remote Linux machine. Alain Ravet Brussels, Belgium This mail has been checked by exiscan. To be safe, please scan the mail attachements with your local virus scanner !