Greets! On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 11:06, Miguel Laborde wrote: > > thanks for the info, appears I probably am climbing up the wrong tree here. Actually, I think you are on the right track. Its just a matter of figuring out exactly where its falling apart. ;-) > Is it possible that as the internal machine tries to establish a new session with the dmz machine, the dmz machine is trying to establish some sort of new connection back to the internal machine Absolutely its possible. Its been a while since I've been into NetBIOS/IP, but its possible that as you connect out the DMZ machine queries back over another set of ports. Easiest way to figure it out is to check your logs. See if you are dropping any traffic from the DMZ system and if so, what is it trying to do. If it is trying to do a call back, opening up the target port in question between these two systems should fix the problem. HTH, Chris