Hello my name is Carlos This is the first time I'm emailing here and I don't know really how this works, I'm just going nuts with the next issue: I'm trying to connect from my XP office computer to my Home (XP prof) computer (192.168.0.4). In my home I have a small network made out of 5 computers, they all connect to internet through a Debian 2.4 box(private 192.168.0.5, public: 80.1.122.39) that I've configured to work as a router-firewall. I modified ip-tables so to let any connection coming to the router to port 3389 to redirect it to 192.168.0.4: iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -p tcp --sport 3389 -s 192.168.0.4 -j SNAT --to 80.1.122.39:3389 iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 3389 -d 80.1.122.39 -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.4:3389 Commands go well, no problems. But still I can't connect, is there something that I'm missing? Thanks very much Carlos Robles mailto txarli11@xxxxxxxxxxx