Hello, Trying to get Sametime Coworker (a Lotus IM application) running again. It worked well with wine up to wine release 991031, when it looks like some major winsock changes went in. Still works with 990923 but with version 991031 and later versions I get a connection refused and then the application hangs, although netstat -a shows an established socket. After poking around the source code for a while and haven't been able to come up with a solution (not deep in sockets skill), so thought I'd throw some data over the wall to the experts. Thanks, Eric After the connection refused the full strace just shows a polling loop: write(5, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 4 rt_sigprocmask(0x1, 0xbffff570, 0, 0x8, 0x1) = 0 poll(0x805e808, 0x5, 0xffffffff, 0x4015d520, 0x805e808) = 1 rt_sigprocmask(0, 0xbffff570, 0, 0x8, 0) = 0 socketcall(0x11, 0xbffff474) = 4 write(5, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 4 rt_sigprocmask(0x1, 0xbffff570, 0, 0x8, 0x1) = 0 poll(0x805e808, 0x5, 0xffffffff, 0x4015d520, 0x805e808) = 1 rt_sigprocmask(0, 0xbffff570, 0, 0x8, 0) = 0 socketcall(0x11, 0xbffff474) = 4 write(5, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 4 Using wine version 20000430 here is a network strace and corresponding wine debugmsg. connect(9, {sun_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, , 0, [10, 11]) = 0 socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, , 0, [12, 13]) = 0 socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, , 0, [20, 21]) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 24 trace:winsock:WSOCK32_LibMain 0x40cc0000 0x1 0x1 trace:winsock:WSAStartup16 verReq=101 trace:winsock:WSAStartup16 succeeded trace:winsock:WSOCK32_LibMain 0x40cc0000 0x2 (nil) trace:winsock:WSAStartup16 verReq=101 trace:winsock:WSAStartup16 succeeded trace:winsock:WSOCK32_socket (4044f8fc): af=2 type=1 protocol=0 trace:winsock:WSOCK32_socket created 0104 trace:winsock:WSOCK32_ioctlsocket (4044f8fc): socket 0104, cmd 8004667e, ptr 40ad6aac trace:winsock:WSOCK32_setsockopt (4044f8fc): socket 0104, lev 65535, opt 8, ptr 40ad6ac8, len 4 trace:winsock:WSOCK32_connect (4044f8fc): socket 0104, ptr 40ad6a98, length 16 trace:winsock:WSAAsyncSelect (4044f8fc): 0104, hWnd 0450, uMsg 00000500, event 00000033 trace:winsock:WSAEventSelect (4044f8fc): 00000104, hEvent 00000108, event 01000033 trace:winsock:WSAIsBlocking trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000104, event 00000108 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent post: event bit 1, error 0 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent post: event bit 4, error 0 trace:winsock:WSAIsBlocking trace:winsock:WSAIsBlocking trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000104, event 00000108 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent post: event bit 0, error 0 trace:winsock:WSAIsBlocking trace:winsock:WSOCK32_recv (4044f8fc): socket 0104, buf 41555c9c, len 5, flags 0 trace:winsock:WSOCK32_recv -> 5 bytes trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000104, event 00000108 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent post: event bit 0, error 0 trace:winsock:WSAIsBlocking trace:winsock:WSOCK32_recv (4044f8fc): socket 0104, buf 41555c9c, len 4, flags 0 trace:winsock:WSOCK32_recv -> 4 bytes trace:winsock:WSAAsyncSelect (4044f8fc): 0104, hWnd 0450, uMsg 00000500, event 00000023 trace:winsock:WSAEventSelect (4044f8fc): 00000104, hEvent 0000004c, event 01000023 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000104, event 00000108 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent orphaned event, self-destructing trace:winsock:WSAAsyncSelect (4044f8fc): 0104, hWnd 0450, uMsg 00000500, event 00000023 trace:winsock:WSAEventSelect (4044f8fc): 00000104, hEvent 00000050, event 01000023 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000104, event 0000004c trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent orphaned event, self-destructing trace:winsock:WSAAsyncSelect (4044f8fc): 0104, hWnd 0450, uMsg 00000500, event 00000023 trace:winsock:WSAEventSelect (4044f8fc): 00000104, hEvent 0000004c, event 01000023 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000104, event 00000050