 original message from joseph s barrera iii sent wednesday september NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm to fork subject dumb question x client behind a firewall let s say you re behind a firewall and have a nat address is there any way to telnet to a linux box out there in the world and set your display in some way that you can create xterms on your own screen joe i m in no way a pro but perhaps you could set your firewall to accept connections from that linux box and then somehow set the linux box to transmit on a specific port then configure your router to forward all information from that port to your box but then again that pretty much defeats the entire point of a firewall p get more from the web free msn explorer download URL 