I have a regular Windows 2K server running at home. I set up for it to share 81 files.

Whenever I use obvious search keys like "Er** L***son" or "J**h M***y" from remote locations, such as work, or my girlfriends house I never see any hits.

The files are all in the library and I see other searches happening on it.

Any idea why I cannot get my stuff from home?

Thanks,
Eric

When you connect to the Gnutella network the files available to you are just a part of the entire network. Try connecting to your computer directly via its IP address.

I did. I entered the IP address of the server at home with a port address of 6346 and it still NEVER hit my machine.

I paid to register this application thinking it would work, but it doesn't.

If there is something I am doing wrong, I would have expected floods of replies to my last message.

The environment is very simple:

Two machines, 1 ip address apart:

x.x.x.248 and x.x.x.249

The x.x.x.248 is playing the role of the server, it has Limewire Pro running sharing 16 files.

On the other one, I bring up limewire and try to search for files on the server, and it never shows any.
In addition, if I search from work, or other locations with the Pro or non pro versions, it NEVER shows any results, even though it always shows TONS of other searches coming through at unbearable rates.

IN addition, I have tried ADDING the x.x.x.248 IP address to the client to have it connect directly, with no results.

If this simple client/server configuration doesn't work, then the whole GNUtella network is seriously flawed. If I am doing something wrong, I would have expected more than 1 reply to my original message. Are there any Limewire programmers on here?