>Hi Cetin:
>
>There has been a bit of a delay with my testing, rewriting the web service and the pocketpc program and then re-testing everything.
>
>It still fails everything using (tiger2, tiger2.mydomain.co.nz, tiger2.domain.local and static ip address) in the url. They all stop at the same place, previously mentioned. With the static ip address in
>

>this.url = http://static_ip/mywebservices/myws.asmx
>

>I got a new error message:
>

>An unhandled exception of type 'System.Net.Sockets.SocketException'
>occurred in System.dll
>An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
>

>I don't know whether that is progress or not!
>
>For the moment, I have run out of options.
>
>Any ideas
>
>Godfrey

Unfortunately no more ideas. I love to see those unhandled exceptions and would handle if I ever I knew how to:)
PS: I assume that URL definition in fact has double quotes and ending semicolon.
Cetin