Hello,
I apologize for posting to the wrong group.

Within the constructor I create a new TcpListener object...

<start of code snippet>
//start listing on the given port
port = Convert.ToInt32(sPort);
_tcpListener = new TcpListener(ipAddress, port) ;
_tcpListener.Start();

//start the thread which calls the method 'StartListen'
m_thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(StartListen));
m_thread.Start() ;
<end of code snippet>

in my next snippet for "StartListen" I wait until a client connects...
<Start Snippet>
StartListen()
{
// variables here...
while(true)
{
// Accept a new connection
Socket _clientSocket = _tcpListener.AcceptSocket();
if (_clientSocket.Connected)
{
// At this point we have another application that does logging since the
windows
// service does not have a user interface...
TcpClient _tcpClient = new TcpClient();
try
{
_tcpClient.Connect(ipAddress, port)
NetworkStream ns = _tcpClient.GetStream();
BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(ns);
bw.Write(sb.ToString());
_tcpClient.Close();
sb.Remove(0, sb.Length);  // sb is a StringBuilder
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
// stuff
}
}
}

One of the things I have recently read is that I need to close the
NetworkStream also, do you think this would cause the sockets to shutdown?  
So far I don't receive any types of error messages, the socket just seems to
stop communicating and the windows service needs to be rebooted...

Thanks for your help.