thanks. it seems the port open. before tunneling the port closed. ~ # nmap -p3690 localhost Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-05-29 04:26 MYT Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PORT STATE SERVICE 3690/tcp open unknown svn co svn://127.0.0.1:/home/kde svn: Can't connect to host '127.0.0.1': Connection refused is this the correct way? or it means use SSH to forward SVN port/access anoncvs is not a good way at all. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/