I installed XNap a while ago and while it starts up
fine it doesn't connect to any servers. It just sits
there saying "Connecting" (or Connection refused) I
booted over to OS/2 and it connects to about five
servers straight away. Can anyone throw any light
onto this?

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On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:27:16 +0900, Wayne wrote:

> I installed XNap a while ago and while it starts up
> fine it doesn't connect to any servers. It just sits
> there saying "Connecting" (or Connection refused) I
> booted over to OS/2 and it connects to about five
> servers straight away. Can anyone throw any light
> onto this?

Is this a Java based P2P app? If so under MDK I could not get Linmewire
to work with the latest Java version from Sun and had to use an older
Blackdown release.

Under SLack 10 I can not get *any* Java P2P to go.

Grab the source for gtk-gnutella and build it. IMO it's far better than
all of the Java ones. However nite that I giot there out of desperation
but was glad I landed there.

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On Friday 02 Jul 2004 14:13 Ron Gibson wrote:

> Is this a Java based P2P app? If so under MDK I could not get Linmewire
> to work with the latest Java version from Sun and had to use an older
> Blackdown release.

Yeah, it's Java. It starts up fine and I can configure it
but it won't connect to any servers. I wonder if it's a
firewall thing? Although it does grab the server list
when requested from the XNap site.
>
> Under SLack 10 I can not get any Java P2P to go.

'java -jar limewire.jar' should do it :-)

In OS/2 I set a whole lot of parameters that don't seem
to work in Linux, like:

java -Duser.home=d:\javaprogs\xnap -jar -cp d:\javaprogs\xnap\ xnap.jar

> Grab the source for gtk-gnutella and build it. IMO it's far better than
> all of the Java ones. However nite that I giot there out of desperation
> but was glad I landed there.

I'm running gtk-gnutella right now. While it lists what
I'm searching for it takes ages to get to the top of the
queue to download them and I've always had more luck with
Xnap in OS/2 :-)

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Wayne wrote:

> I installed XNap a while ago and while it starts up
> fine it doesn't connect to any servers. It just sits
> there saying "Connecting" (or Connection refused) I
> booted over to OS/2 and it connects to about five
> servers straight away. Can anyone throw any light
> onto this?

Give Lopster a try: http://lopster.sourceforge.net ... if you're up to it,
the latest build from CVS fixes some bugs in the version that's on the
project page.
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On Friday 02 Jul 2004 16:47 Gary G. Taylor wrote:

> Give Lopster a try: http://lopster.sourceforge.net ... if you're up to it,
> the latest build from CVS fixes some bugs in the version that's on the
> project page.

Umm, thanks but I don't think I'm quite ready to mess about with
sources. Still a noob at this even after a year :-)

I've looked at the other clients, like Donkey, etc, but still like
the feel of XNap. Think I'll just persevere with gtk-gnutella.

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On Friday 02 Jul 2004 16:54 Wayne wrote:
 
>
> Umm, thanks but I don't think I'm quite ready to mess about with
> sources. Still a noob at this even after a year :-)
>
> I've looked at the other clients, like Donkey, etc, but still like
> the feel of XNap. Think I'll just persevere with gtk-gnutella.

Duh, there's an RPM of Lopster on PLF! There just had to be :-)

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On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:19:09 +0900, Wayne wrote:
 
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Yeah, it's Java. It starts up fine and I can configure it
> but it won't connect to any servers. I wonder if it's a
> firewall thing? Although it does grab the server list
> when requested from the XNap site.

Same exact thing here. I set my NAT router firewall to allow incoming
and outgoing traffic on port 6346. I open the ports when I fore up a P@P
and close them when done.

Shoot this isn't rocket science - It's just Java -jar LimeWire.jar will
usually work even without using the sh script.

I did manage to get Phex working half way. It would take forever to find
a few connections though. I double checked by booting other OS's and
running Limewire in that environment and it worked fine. Whatever is the
problem is it is related to JAVA, the newer kernel and newer libs. There
is no way I can tell which.

Also JavaVNC stopped working. Thank God the Java plugin at least works.

> In OS/2 I set a whole lot of parameters that don't seem
> to work in Linux, like:

> Java -Duser.home=d:\javaprogs\xnap -jar -cp d:\javaprogs\xnap\ xnap.jar

Naw that isn't needed. In fact I didn't used to even need to use the run
script.
 
[vbcol=seagreen]
> I'm running gtk-gnutella right now. While it lists what
> I'm searching for it takes ages to get to the top of the
> queue to download them and I've always had more luck with
> Xnap in OS/2 :-)

You know for best results you need to open ports, right?

You need to set 6346 (or a commonly used port on gnutella) so that...

WAN incoming forwarded to 192.168.<rest of addy for target on LAN>:6346 -
allowed

192.168.<rest addy>:6346 out  to WAN - allowed.

Then be sure you have the right port selected in gtk-gnutella.

This isn't always needed but I get better results myself this way and I
close the ports when I'm done locking the door.

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On Friday 02 Jul 2004 21:28 Ron Gibson wrote:

> Same exact thing here. I set my NAT router firewall to allow incoming
> and outgoing traffic on port 6346. I open the ports when I fore up a P@P
> and close them when done.
>
> Shoot this isn't rocket science - It's just Java -jar LimeWire.jar will
> usually work even without using the sh script.
>
> I did manage to get Phex working half way. It would take forever to find
> a few connections though. I double checked by booting other OS's and
> running Limewire in that environment and it worked fine. Whatever is the
> problem is it is related to JAVA, the newer kernel and newer libs. There
> is no way I can tell which.
>
> Also JavaVNC stopped working. Thank God the Java plugin at least works.

I think I saw a report today that a new version of Java is available.
I've been too busy drinking beer and watching DVDs to investigate :-)

To be honest though I don't really want any Java apps as they are a
bit fiddly, to say the least. I do need something like 'JAlbum' as
my GF keeps asking me to put up a photos page for her on her site.
 
> 
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Naw that isn't needed. In fact I didn't used to even need to use the run
> script.

I use it in OS/2 so that config files get written to the applet
directory instead of the default Java directory.
 
> 
>
> You know for best results you need to open ports, right?
>
> You need to set 6346 (or a commonly used port on gnutella) so that...
>
> WAN incoming forwarded to 192.168.<rest of addy for target on LAN>:6346 -
> allowed
>
> 192.168.<rest addy>:6346 out__to_WAN_-_allowed.
>
> Then be sure you have the right port selected in gtk-gnutella.
>
> This isn't always needed but I get better results myself this way and I
> close the ports when I'm done locking the door.

When it works, it works fine. I suppose it depends on what files
I'm looking for and when I'm looking :-)

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On Friday 02 Jul 2004 21:28 Ron Gibson wrote:
 
>
> You know for best results you need to open ports, right?
>
> You need to set 6346 (or a commonly used port on gnutella) so that...
>
> WAN incoming forwarded to 192.168.<rest of addy for target on LAN>:6346 -
> allowed
>
> 192.168.<rest addy>:6346 out__to_WAN_-_allowed.
>
> Then be sure you have the right port selected in gtk-gnutella.
>
> This isn't always needed but I get better results myself this way and I
> close the ports when I'm done locking the door.

What pees me off with some of these file-sharing apps and
gtk-gnutella in particular, is servers break off while
you're downloading. I have one file at 99.96% done and the
server breaks off and I have to wait half an hour before
I can connect to another one and then it comes trickling
in at 1kbps :-)

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Wayne wrote:

> On Friday 02 Jul 2004 16:54 Wayne wrote:
> 
>
> Duh, there's an RPM of Lopster on PLF! There just had to be :-)
>
> Wayne

Reread what I said: "_the_latest_build" has the bugfixes, the RPM does not.
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