jeffz wrote: > > it's easier if you tell us the name of the program and if there is somewhere to get a demo/trial copy As I said, the program is part of a proprietary application, and, unfortunately, I have no source code for it, so I don't really know what port it is trying to open, nor can I 'legally' send it to anyone. That is a big part of the battle. I have (re)verified that this app works on XP, and the DLLs I copied to Wine's system32 folder were from that installation. I have the wineserver's verbose debug output that I could provide. But I am having a hard time deciphering much of it. It looks like a "select" call is returning TIMEOUT where it doesn't on XP. Hope this helps some. TIA ken