I have a (minor) problem that superficially resembles the one described in this thread: topic=6943.0 . I run HFS on XP Home, SP3. I use port 7000, forwarded without any difficulty through my router. Every so often, the port seems to spontaneously change to 1000, breaking accessibility. I suspect it is related to events, such as temporarily changing from a static internal IP on my LAN to a dynamic one set by DHCP, but though I know that would break accessibility because port forwarding would no longer be directed to the correct IP, I can't see why that should change the port setting on HFS. As I mentioned, I regard this to be a minor problem, thus far. It has occurred infrequently, and each time I have fairly quickly identified the incorrect port setting, and reset it.
Thanks for any thoughts or similar accounts you might share.