Morning Skunkers, Am in a little dilemma here, I would really appreciate a little help in this and in understanding/ fixing my situation. this may not sound more tech but i believe someone can understand it. i need to access my server through my public IP but all i get is a can't establish a connection to the server at 41.206.34....:3030. on my router all the ports are enabled and a port scan shows they are open. when i ping the server i get a reply and no timeouts. this is getting me more confused,i really cant get it. i tried to turn off the firewall and see if i can connect but nothing at all. Am using server 2008 R2 enterprise edition. Secondly i did a port scan using mxtool box and this is the result i got. *Status* *Port* *Name* *Result* *Time (ms)* [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 21 ftp No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 41.206.34…:21 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-green.png] 22 ssh Success 640 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-green.png] 23 telnet Success 608 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 25 smtp Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 53 dns No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 41.206.34….:53 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-green.png] 80 http Success 640 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 110 pop3 Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 143 imap Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 139 netbios Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 389 ldap Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-green.png] 443 https Success 640 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 587 msa-outlook Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 1352 lotus notes No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 41.206.34…:1352 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 1433 sql server No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 41.206.34…:1433 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 3306 my sql Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 3389 remote desktop Thread was being aborted. 0 [image: Description: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/public/images/supertool/icon-red.png] 8080 webcache Timeout i need to understand what thread was being aborted means and how i can resolve this. Regards