Thanks guys, I have literally had to learn EVERYTHING I know about proxies in two days from Mr Shinder?s books! The Firewall log is as follows for my Socks4 FTP attempts: #Fields:c-ip cs-username c-agent date time s-computername r-host r-ip r-port time-taken cs-bytes sc-bytes cs-protocol cs-transport s-operation sc-status sessionid connectionid 10.X.X.X - - 2005-02-16 09:22:29 MyProxy - 12.X.X.X 21 - - - 21 TCP Connect 13301 49 45 10.X.X.X - - 2005-02-16 11:02:51 MyProxy - 12.X.X.X 21 - - - 21 TCP Connect 13301 50 46 10.X.X.X - - 2005-02-16 11:06:19 MyProxy 12.X.X.X - - - - - - - GHBN 13301 51 0 10.X.X.X - - 2005-02-16 11:07:28 MyProxy - 12.X.X.X 21 - - - 21 TCP Connect 13301 52 47 10.X.X.X - - 2005-02-16 12:02:55 MyProxy - 12.X.X.X 21 - - - 21 TCP Connect 13301 53 48 10.X.X.X - - 2005-02-16 12:05:02 MyProxy - 12.X.X.X 21 - - - 21 TCP Connect 13301 54 49 10.X.X.X - - 2005-02-16 15:34:05 MyProxy - 12.X.X.X 21 - - - 21 TCP Connect 13301 59 54 I have blanked my PC ip to 10.X.X.X but this was one single IP address. I have blanked the Internet destination to 12.X.X.X but this was one single IP address. I have changed the s-computer name to MyProxy, but this did have the name of my proxy server. What do these logs tell me? all it seems to suggest to me is that the connections are essentially working, but yet no connections are attempted from the proxy to the remote host. Please advise if you can thanks