Hello, I finally got the local copy working (meaning I can connect via lan) when I goto the field server and do dialup it gets to the point stating "verifying username" and times out. the server is showing this Apr 4 15:11:06 firewall pppd[307]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x213039e1> <pcomp> <accomp>] I can connect local via chap btw. Any ideas? Ed