[Serusers] Authentication failure (was:problem running ser in the foreground)

thank you girish and mirian for your replies. indeed i now have ser running in the foreground. i am however having difficulties with authentication and registration. i am able to register via sipsak on the same machine running ser. i am also able to register using sipsak from my another (home) network (which is behind a nat'd firewall) if i use the -H option and explicitly set the hostname. however i am unable to register using iether kphone or sjphone. my ser.conf looks like this: loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/mysql.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/tm.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/rr.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/maxfwd.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/usrloc.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth_db.so" modparam("usrloc", "db_mode", 2) modparam("auth_db", "calculate_ha1", yes) modparam("auth_db", "password_column", "password") modparam("auth_db", "password_column_2", "ha1b") modparam("rr", "enable_full_lr", 1) any help, hints or rtfm's would be appreciated... thanks, daryl Girish wrote: