No sure if this is useful to you , but if you just need a free utility to run netstat remotely, you can try http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml
regards, Hun Boon Teo You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.