I was finally able to track down the problem and got connected and wanted to share with you what I discovered because it may help others. The problem was one of the settings in my Norton Internet Security. The problem had to do with the Personal Firewall. I could leave Personal Firewall on, but on the Programs Tab - Manual Program Control I had LimeWire set at Block All. It worked when I changed this setting to Permit All. In the end I solved the problem on my own, but I do appreciate the responsiveness you showed along the way. Thanks.

Hi David,

If you have time, it'd be very helpful if you were able to document the steps you took and take some screenshots along the way. We can compile a list of rules for each program and list them on the website for future users.

I had been considering making this thread a sticky. sberlin's suggestions would give it much more reason to do so.

It's hard to beat the old ones, huh ?....

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=25119

No offense to anyone but it really is worth it to LW users to have a look at the BearShare help pages on firewall settings.
At least a couple of thousand or so have read it !!!

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Yup -- ideally what we'd have is a bunch of pages like BearShare has, but with "LimeWire" listed (and whatever else we need) instead.

What if I replicate the page or something similar with LW substituting the Bearshare name. I'm not sure how to load a html page page up here anyway. Particularly when I don't have a personal active site up online.

I can think of about 6 - 8 volunteer type people, who worked their lower soft posterior parts off in creating the original, who would probably be quite pissed-off if you did just lift it for 'the Competition' !

You know them. lol Yeah actually I was trained not to steal (plus that being the net law 'here' w/o prior permission of course.) But apparently in the USA that same rule doesn't apply to sites that don't make profit out of it. I certainly ain't getting any profit out of it. Not unless LW wishes to volunteer some funds my way. lol I'm not sure it should take 6-8 people to set up the process & write the page. Not unless each one was taking it in turns to add a one & a zero & a one & so on. lol Sounds like a count in to a song. I would have to be a percussionist wouldn't I.

OK point taken. But the other obvious alternative is to add their link as well as Symantics' - which is not as straight forward for the average person. It was actually the latter link that was holding me back from stickying it in the 1st place - I was still deciding. If DavidGene could take some snapshots for each step & even email them to me I could fit them up into a handy page. And he could be the official author of it.

DavidGene pm me that he sorted the issue himself & I suggested to him to post it so it'd be of benefit to others. He should be congratulated.

The user mendacious quality of the Norton site is the reason why I suggest to people that they will learn the basics far quicker, and thus be connected sooner, if they have a look at the BS FAQ page on firewalls...

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er.... Actually it was a group of 6 - 8 volunteers who produced the entire FAQs... They are certainly the best of any I know of and are full of info applicable to many other p2p clients and applications in general !

That Darth Vinnie sure does have a way with his slaves, huh ?

And they've done a great job!!! By the way, Dare I say it I believe Vinnie & another here ... no I shouldn't say it. You know what I mean. lol That's history.

I've been on dialup for the past 8 hrs what a pain. More updating of tele services in around the state. Just as well they have a backup.