> without success. I think that _maybe_ httrack
> detects that the site is already on my network
> therefore it's not necessary to mirror it... am I
> doing something wrong? I'm just running "httrack
> <http://mylocalserver> instead of "httrack
> <http://myremoteserver.tld>.

It's not that smart. 
Can your browser see <http://mylocalserver>
Did you have httrack log in.
what does the log file say