I have a school project to develop an application that can chat using IP addresses and port number. I ahve chosen Visual Basic because of the WINSOCK control that helps in the TCP connection. MY problem now is that whenever I try to connect to the remote system using its IP address, I flags error 40006, Wrong Protocol or connection state. Please I need help here. Olumode

Ok, I'll just take a look at your code.. ...Hmm..You seem to be missing something... AKhalifman@hotmail.com

The winsock control can be slightly esoteric. You need to do this (in the server app) under the Connection Reguest Private Sub Winsock1_ConnectionRequest(ByVal requestID As Long) ' This is Server Socket Code Winsock1.Close Winsock1.Accept requestID End Sub And this is for the client: Private Sub Winsock1_Close() ' Client Code Winsock1.Close End Sub Also, if you ARE doing both of these things, then you might need to check your Protocol, there are two protocols you can use. I hope this helps. Chi BTW: The WinSock Control is pretty good, but Sockets in .NET roxor! "They mostly come at night...mostly"