Hi, I'm trying to learn some basic networking and I've tried to run the code from the Pragmatic Programmer in the Class TCPServer which connects to a server and then returns the date and time ( as in Steven's Networking book ). I am using a W2K machine and have started an Apache service, which comes attached to Oracle. When I use 127.0.0.1 or call a server that I am linked to on a LAN, I get the same error "Only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted" I get this error when I run it as an rbw through Scite, or from the command line. What do I need to do to make a server connection? Thanks, Barry