I've investigated a bit more and i think i've found the root of the problem. The lookup to the jnp server is working as expected, returning the correct resource however from the hermes logs it appears that it is then attempting to connect to an internal ip address instead of going through the localhost tunnel. Notice in the logs that it fails while trying to lookup ip address 10.11.64.61 I've tested hermes with jboss messaging on my local machine and everything works well - do you have any ideas on how i can get this to work? Ovidiu - I'm more than happy to add to the doco :-) 2006-08-24 21:10:38,446 [Hermes ThreadPool-4] ERROR hermes.browser.tasks.HermesBrowserTaskListener - No message, linked exception is : null hermes.HermesException: No message, linked exception is : null at hermes.browser.model.tree.ContextTreeNode.setContext(ContextTreeNode.java:174) at hermes.browser.model.tree.ContextTreeNode.(ContextTreeNode.java:65) at hermes.browser.model.tree.ContextTreeNode.(ContextTreeNode.java:70) at hermes.browser.components.ContextTreeModelFactory.create(ContextTreeModelFactory.java:60) at hermes.browser.tasks.JNDIBrowseTask.invoke(JNDIBrowseTask.java:59) at hermes.browser.tasks.TaskSupport.run(TaskSupport.java:174) at hermes.browser.tasks.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:182) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 10.11.64.61; nested exception is: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.list(NamingContext.java:812) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.list(NamingContext.java:786) at javax.naming.InitialContext.list(InitialContext.java:395) at hermes.browser.model.tree.ContextTreeNode.setContext(ContextTreeNode.java:101) at hermes.browser.model.tree.ContextTreeNode.(ContextTreeNode.java:65) at hermes.browser.model.tree.ContextTreeNode.(ContextTreeNode.java:70) at hermes.browser.components.ContextTreeModelFactory.create(ContextTreeModelFactory.java:60) at hermes.browser.tasks.JNDIBrowseTask.invoke(JNDIBrowseTask.java:59) at hermes.browser.tasks.TaskSupport.run(TaskSupport.java:174) at hermes.browser.tasks.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:182) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 10.11.64.61; nested exception is: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:574) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:185) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:171) at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:94) at org.jnp.server.NamingServer_Stub.list(Unknown Source) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.list(NamingContext.java:800) ... 10 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:516) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:466) at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:366) at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:179) at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIDirectSocketFactory.java:22) at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIMasterSocketFactory.java:128) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:569) ... 15 more View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967342#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...