Guys, My company has been supporting WIndows servers behind NAT firewalls by using MyPC for a couple of years. We want to start supporting SuSE boxes that same way. Does anyone know of a tool or technique for doing this? (We currently pay MyPC a $10/month/server fee and if there is an equivalent service for Linux boxes we would definitely consider it.) If there is not an existing solution to this problem, maybe SuSE should consider adding it to their list of purchased support options. === The issue. Assume the SuSE box allows telnet connections and that will give us all the access that we need. The trouble is that if the SuSE sever is behind a customer firewall, we have no way to connect to it. I know that we could "open the firewall" for our needs, but I have been down that road before and it can get very politically difficult. We have found for Windows support, it is much cleaner to just pay the $10/month and get on with life. === The MyPC solution A driver gets installed on the PC that causes a socket to be established to a central MyPC server at boot up. If we want to control the PC from our location, we connect to the MyPC central server and tell it which PC we want to talk to. The central server then sets up a dedicated socket for this communication, and performs IP forwarding on all the packets. The end result is that only MyPC server has to be directly on the Internet. Both the controlled PC and the controlling PC can be behind firewalls. Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com