Hi, I think the problem may be that the version that works behind firewalls was the Perl FTP method; and somehow the new C based method is not as forewall freindly? manoj -- Vail's Second Axiom: The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed. Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E