Sergej, have a look at the Microsoft KB ( http://www.microsoft.com/kb ) Article ID: Q150523 BUG: Socket Inheritance in Windows 95 Regards Karl Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >problem - looks like sockets are non-inheritable on Windows95... Inetd/telnetd works The following (MSVC compiled) program prints "closesocket OK" on NT and "closesocket error" on w95. <snip> - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".