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Old May 8th, 2002
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I am connected through a network at school. I have morpheus and I can connect to that fine, but when I try to connect to limewire the connection light turns green for a second and then goes back red.
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Try getting a gnutella.net file here:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=11123

Rename the file to gnutella.net and put it into the directory where you installed LimeWire.
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I downloaded the file that you said and it still isnt working. Is there anything else that I could try?
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This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you rename the file so it works properly? When you download it? After? Is the file supposed to be a text file when you put it in the LimeWire directory?
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It is supposed to be a file named "gnutella.net", not "gnutella.net.txt"
So just remove the ".txt" from the end after downloading it. (right-click, rename)

Oh, and if you're using windows with those "hide file extension" options on, go and turn them off from the folder options.

(I hate windows for those lame newbie-protection systems that are on by default, and some of them cannot be turned off)
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I finally got it to connect. I did rename the file, but it was still a text file through msdos. I already had a file named gnutella.net when i downloaded limewire but it was empty, so I opened it through notepad and copied and pasted everything from gnutel.net.txt to gnutella.net and now it works!!
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When downloading it or with the explorer (although the latter usually doesn't show the file extensions by default).

It's not supposed to be a text-file after changing the extension.
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Ok, I am getting very frustrated with this. I downloaded 2.4.2 and I am on it, but it will not let me connect. I have tried almost everything i have read in the forums! Does anyone know what i can do? I have tried to change it to the bearshare.net and i have tried the gnutellanet.net and copying it and putting it in the limeworm file directory and i have no clue why it is not working! Any help, PLEASE! Thank you in advance! and ASAP!

-in need of help!
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Open your dos-prompt. Change to the directory where you put the gnutella.net.txt. Rename it with.

rename gnutella.* gnutella.net

Than copy it to your LimeWire directory with:

copy gnutella.net C:\progra~1\LimeWire

That's it. The gnutella.net contains just a couple of ips (~500). When none of them is online (which might even happen) you won't be able to connect.
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To see if it worked, look at your connections tab after launching limewire. Limewire should be trying to connect to varius addresses.
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