Hi, I was wondering if this problem has been solved. I´m using the parallels iphone app to connect to the VMs. I really don´t want to use the parallels service so I added two direct connections, one for local and one for internet connection. The local one works fine after I renamed my username on the mac (what an embarrassing solution - hope this is only a workaround). The other external connection fails to connect server or sometimes I get after 10 sec of connecting "invalid argument". The port forwarding 64001 is enabled and the firewall is disabled. What can I do to get this finally working?? regards Andreas