Have just finished installing Tomcat on an NT box using the instructions Working with the Jakarta NT Service By Gal Shachor <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> These instructions where very useful. However I installed Tomcat in the "Program Files" directory structure and the following two lines in wrapper.properties wrapper.java_home=c:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.2 wrapper.tomcat_home=c:\Program Files\tomcat would not allow the service to start. I had to change the paths to the old DOS eight character format i.e. wrapper.java_home=c:\Progra~1\JavaSoft\JRE\1.2 wrapper.tomcat_home=c:\Program~1\tomcat before the service would start. Obviously putting it in its own C:\TOMCAT directory would not have caused the problem. It might be worth ading to the document. It would have saved me a hour fiddling about if it had been. Now to learn how to program servlets. Keep up the grat work you guys Cheers Bob C