Hi Reini, > But we already found out that the culprit was Norton Firewall, closing > your socket, wasn't it? NIS is gone. Best regards, Jacek. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/