all right, thanks ed this connects me and according to my specially set network time it is 5:06:41 . Thanks for the help. Genghis Khan, your trick gets my iDisk up.. but after all that work, i've decided that the iDisk sucks because a. I don't want to pay $1000 per year for a reasonable amount of space and b. I suppose due to the insanly slow apple servers, it takes more than 1 minute just to open it... lol thanks anyways guys.