Ok my setup is Linux Mandrake 8 with a modem connection to the net. I'm using samba to share files through eth0 with a windows 98se box. All is working well and I even have the net connection shared with iptables but... Ok after modprobing ip_conntrack, ip_conntrack_ftp, ip_conntrack_irc, ip_nat_ftp, ip_nat_irc, and ipt_unclean (unclean one being optimistic) I found that I still can't do file trnsfers in AIM or use NetMeeting or play Quake (online). Well these things I really need to do with the windows box so I was thinking of trying a proxy server (squid?) but would that solve my problem? I'm really not familiar with iptables and the man page doesn't seem to say anything about how to get these different protocols going. I even installed the kernel source and looked through the Documentation directy and in the net directory (and read the source files for all the ipv4 modules) but can't find anything... Help would be greatly appreciated. Even ideas? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/