I think I'm being ignored! For help with firewalling under Linux, I suggest looking at http://plonk.sourceforge.net This is a very good script for quickly and easily setting up an ipchains based firewall. (kernel 2.2.*) I haven't looked at the iptables (2.4.*) version yet. Another firewall script you might find useful is here: http://heimdall.asgardsrealm.net/linux/firewall/ This one is for 2.4 only. NEW CONTENT: What kind of iptables troubles are you having. Did you modprobe ip_tables? :) As for Xforwarding, enable it in /etc/sshd_config. ssh -X -v user at host.tld Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "We can learn much more from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys." --William Arthur Ward