right on janina I love ssh tunneling. I use to use it at college when I wanted to circumvent some 11 levels of nat to do a spot of irc chat or transfering home work to a place I could later download it from if the files were too large for me to take home on floppy. -- "You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over" Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/