I have tried pasting the url into the browser addy bar, highlight and paste, and I get the same error. he resent the link to me when he sent me his ip address and it still didn't work. however, the ip address he sent me was a 192.168... address, which would be local, right? would I need an external ip address to connect to the server, something like 97.89...blah blah? when connecting to a ftp am I