Rob:
Thanks for the pointer!
The trick with ITC regarding private servers seems to be:
1) Use the "URL" method
ex: thisform.itc.Url="ftp:// ftp.privateserver"
2) Assign the username and password
ex: thisform.itc.UserName="myuser"
thisform.itc.PassWord="Mypass"
3) Look for state 12 in the ITCs StateChanged and then do the GETCHUNK() as
offered in ITCs VB example to buffer the response.

My initial attempts with OpenURL and Execute in the ITCs event offering to make the connection did not work on private servers.

Thanks
Terry