Hi Denis thanks for your suggstion,
Checked out telnet and no joy connecting through it. The situation is this, if i use the standard telnet port 23 I can communicate between servers in either direction and to both from another random machine on the network. However on port 8100 it's not happening. I went about opening the ports using the 'netsh' tool but even after this I still can't communicate between the two servers using telnet? Any thoughts on this?
OFC i have checked all the services are running.
I am gonna try reinstalling the network monitor detection server software see if i missed something in the install - will update what happens