Hi,
I must confess my naivete with this system...I never belonged to napster, but happened to come across this system through a friend (when I was driving myself nuts looking for a song on websites).
OK...I have three questions, if permitted. I have searched through these forums, but all the answers I've found are still fairly over-my-head (sadly), so I'm looking for basic, easy-to-understand answers...

1) I am running zonealarm...what do I need to do to facilitate people wishing to download FROM me, and also, to enable me to not be behind a firewall, thus preventing ME from downloading from others?

2) Currently, the only items in my "shared" folder are those items I've been able to download. I have NUMEROUS items in other areas of my hard drive - I suppose I would need to copy them into the 'shared' location, as well? In fact, does the fact that I am currently only 'sharing' 10 files prevent me from being able to download from some people? (it does seem as though 90% of my download requests come back as "Could Not Download").

3) I understand that, when trying to download from an IP listed in red, that it means THAT host is behind a firewall - I've read that I'm supposed to "push" my request. What does that mean/how do I do that? I'm going to suppose, also, that my configuring zonealarm would be helpful for this?

I will also provide my email addy, should someone wish to contact me off-board, but I have to assume that my questions are probably universal for many newbies...Hopefully I haven't offended anyone with what I can only assume, are semi-sophomoric questions...

Chris
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