Hi Guys, Sorry to hijack thread but I have a problem that has me pulling my hair out for the past week. I have debian server set up and serving my sly card internally to 2 db800 and 2 db500 boxes but i cant get it to serve outside to my mates box I have setup dyndns account bea**server.dyndns.org, I have set static ip for debian server 192.168.2.*** I have set static ip addresss for all dreamboxes my router address is 192.168.2.1, my wan ip in router is 192.168.100.** and when I check whats my ip on google it shows 149.5.40.***. is the problem my service provider or am i missing something on dyndns.org i have put in ip address of debian server 192.168.2.*** i forwarded 12000, 21,22,23 and 80 ports in router have set up f line username1 password1 in server and given c line (C: bea**server.dyndns.org 12000 username1 password1 to my mate but no joy, my mates box works fine with another c line from somebody else. please help before I go bald or insane or both.. thanks muchly.