hi, I use wine to run mIRC with the sysreset fserve addons. Since I use it as a file server, I receive several dcc connections. However, it seems that when a dcc connection ends, the socket is not closed, and the port associated with that socket remains listening; so, after a while, a lot of new sockets are created and more and more new tcp ports became listening. Is there a way to avoid this? netstat says that the program listening to these ports is "winepreloade" thank you!! _____________________________________________________________ Open a Private 6MB Email account today, for Free! ----- http://www.killamail.com -----