Going Further, I would want to state that my Windows XP IP is 192.168.99.73 and the ip for the Linux box is 192.168.104.34, they are on the same network but different sub net.
ok, my ip is 192.168.99.73 i can definately send over the result for iptables-dump but tomm as m home at the moment, but i m really thankful to u for looking into this as i need to resolve the issue...