Windows 7 32 bit, alnet 16ch hardware compression cards.

Somehow I cant get to the VDR-S client. I've opened the ports, turned off the windows firewall, opened the ports through the windows firewall (a little bit redundant since the firewall is off). I have confirmed that the traffic is getting through my router and is not being blocked there.

Anything specific to Windows 7 that causes this? I'm used to XP and cant explain it myself.

The Client application does not throw an error - it actually says "Succesful" but then the cameras show in error and it goes back to trying the connection again,

Thanks.
Omar.