Most cable companies won't allow outside connections to thier news server. You can connect through Outlook because it's on the network, but your server isn't.

groovesalad I guess I should have mentioned my IP's for my linux server's are rented from the cable co. ....likely that is why I am able to access them, good luck trying to resolve.

groovesalad if you have phpadmin installed click on the vbulletin database then chose the table named "nntp_groups" in this table look for the "group name", you might have a few...I have 2 newgroups ,find the group eg; alt.satellite.tv.crypt and click *edit*....now where it says *lastmsg" you might see "30168650"...edit this number and change to a lower number, make sure the "save" option is clicked and hit "GO"...now go visit gateway.php or sync through the admin.cp and you should see a bunch of threads being loaded in...if you use admin.cp you will see all the new posts being added

**Note next time you go into phpadmin the last post count may be changed back to 30168650 or something close, as this is the most current post...thats okay set the number again for the newsgroup a bit lower than last time and keep downloading the posts in chunks as I mentioned above, dont try to do all posts at once in a big group...use this method and decrease the posts each time and download...this worked for me and should work for you.

alesis....weird, still nothing. Oh well, thanks for all the help :)

I have this hack working with Giganews. I did have to download the first batch of articles in chunks but it works.

http://pointbeing.com/bassforum

that's weird allan, not sure why mine doesn't work.

I did have to increase the script timeout in php.ini and grab the articles about 50 at a time.

I think it's in the original NNTP gateway thread, but there's a script available that does the same job but provides verbose output. Maybe that'd be something to try - at least then you'd know what was failing.

Good luck -

There's two instances of this in admin/forum.php, once in "Start updateparentlists" and another in "Start function displayforums".

Under which one do I add the given code, or do I do it for both instances?

Thanks for any help!

- Norm