Ok you are the man.....i forgot that a modem is not a modem anymore its a modem/router. needless to say the solution was to forward port in modem as I already did this in Belkin router. Don't know if it matters to you....but I did connect to the server through the WAN from inside the LAN .....to do so I went to the client's network connection and under network changed the Automatic drop down box to PPTP Yhanks very much for your assistance. B)