hi all, a while ago i posted a question on closing port 6000 and 31785. a kind person mailed me off list with the correct answer. Before you flame me for an issue thats been covered on this list note that the addition of -nolisten tcp to the Xservers file (as Roman suggested a while ago) doesn't work on my installation. Anyway I snarfed my box with something I was playing with and require the exact same advice the kind person gave me a few weeks ago to close these two ports. (commenting out the last three lines of some X file ?) It might also be a good idea to post it to the list as I have already received three people mailing me off list asking if I had found a solution and then this can go in the archives in case I or someone else needs it again... tia andre