>Windows XP firewall is only useful if your laptop is directly connected to the   
   > internet with out a NAT router in front.  The router provided by your ISP   
   > (which you configure to allow port forwarding) is acting as your firewall.   
   > Because your router is filtering traffic from the internet to your home.   
      
   We are not talking about the Windows firewall though, are we? Aren't we   
   talking about a REAL firewall, the one that is NATing your ports to your   
   computer?   
      
   Sorry, I must have misunderstood completely. I have never used the Windows   
   firewall on my BBS boxes, so it didn't even cross my mind thjat this was the   
   issue.   
      
   > Now, if you need to open ports 1024 to 65535 for Passive FTP (PASV) to work,   
   > then I suggest you not run anything else on the laptop except for your BBS.   
   > That way you can minimise what ports are open within Windows XP.   
      
   Lap Top? Are you running your BBS system on a lap top computer? are you   
   seroius?   
      
   I rest my case. Sorry Rudi....   
      
   Torbjørn   
      
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