"Ted" <ted21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:44d240b6$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Terry said that Computer 2 can connect to server on Computer 1
> when running as a normal windows application.
>
> (translation: COMPUTER 1 CAN ACCEPT INBOUND CONNECTIONS)
Connections are accepted on a per-port basis. If he can connect to a port
inside a normal application, but not to a port in a service, then something
is BLOCKING the connection to the service. That has nothing to do with the
service itself. So the port being used by the service is either being
blocked on Computer 1 (firewall issue), or Computer 1 is having errors when
accepting new connections on that port (OS/software issue), or Computer 2 is
not able to reach the port on Computer 1 at all (router issue).
Gambit
