Hello ! Have you tried to see if the ports are visible from the outside, e.g. run nmap targethost from the remote host ? Next is there anything in the logs about attempted connections ? Regards Helge -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de For gpg-key: finger kreutzm@rigel.itp.uni-hannover.de 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/