For windows that's:

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For mac then:

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To know if somebody is chat enabled you should Right-click or for mac that's control-click the top of the column bar & select your options. Choose Chat. This is also available in the downld/Search Results/& Upload windows.

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Hum LW 4.4 and up configure those Linksys computer automaticatilly, get it at www9.limewire.com:82/download/

Also, I think that you can connect to other LW on a lan by typing the lan address in the direct connect tab: ie 192.168.1.100:6346 To know your lan IP in os x go in system preferences, network, ethernet (or airport), select configure, go in TCP/IP tab and you should see the IP address.

Bonne chance!!

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Chat was already enabled on both LMs.

We installed the new 4.4.3 version on the windows computer and disabled the firewall, but it still says that the firewall or a router is blocking the direct connect feature. In the options/firewall, it says that LM can work aroud the router by using UPnP but it doesn't do it.

If I select the "manual port" it says that I have to configure the router also. But I just tried that earlier and I lost all internet connections on both computers! I had to call Linksys support to reconfigure the router. So I'm pretty scared to play around with that again. The problem was that it's the mac that has the primary internal IP and when we assigned a static IP, it wasn't for the right computer. Anyway, I'm sure there's an easier (and fool-proof) way.

On the MS website, I found an upgrade for peer-to-peer connections, maybe that will work. The only other info I found there was that Windows 2000 is AppleTalk compatible, but nothing about win xp. There has to be a way for us to network because right now, we can't even share a printer! We have to play with the cables all the time.

In the Network setup wizard, it says that we have to run it on all computers that we want on the network, but I obviously can't run a win app on the mac (much less a win configured cd or floppy...).

If you can find anything alse, please keep me posted! I'm pulling my hair out over this!

Thanks

Your 2 computers are not connected directly on a lan right! You're only connected via the modem & router. So it's a bit different. (That's the way I see it!)

If you were connected directly via lan then you should be able to share printers. Particularly if you were using an assistant such as whatever it's called ... David I think. It can help to network a mac & pc.

Bien le bonjour cher ami québécois!

The problem is that we can't see each other on internet at all. We can't share printers, we can't direct connect on LM or in Age of Empires or anything else.

When we use the laptop (wich is also a PC running win xp), we can play against each other directly using our internal IP addresses (i.e. [Edit]) as long as we are using the same versions of the game. But we can't with the mac.

In LM, when I try to browse his computer with the method I explained earlier (blue stars instead of yellow), the IP that I see is [Edit]. But if I type the same thing in the direct connect window, it tells me that I can't browse this host.

I'm going to look on the Linksys website again to try to find a miracle! When I called them about loosing my connection, I also asked them about file and printer sharing and he said that he is not aloud to give us that information on the phone, that I have to take my chances on the website.

Vive le Québec libre!

Try [Edit].

That also gets back to my earlier reference to setting a different listening port on the 'other' LW.

Edited by request of user and ALSO because of the House Rules. (para LotR)

We did that, on the mac the port is 6348 and on the PC it's 6346.

I tried to connect to the pc using both the internal IP address ([Edit]) and the external IP:6346. But none of them work.

On the pc, I tried the same thing with 6348, but it says that a firewall or a router is blocking the direct connect feature. The firewalls of both computers are disabled. Now it seems that it's really just a router problem and that it it's a pc thing because we can't connect to anyone at all with that computer and it doesn't have that little added paragraph I mentioned earlier. BTW, on the mac, in that paragraph, it says that my IP adress is the external one:6348, not the usual internal [Edit] that it shows me when I look in my system preferences.

Well I tried the lan thing here, and it doesn't work, while the exterior IP works. I also just tried to connect to your IP with the 6346 and 6348 ports and it doesn't work, meaning that either your router or modem blocks connections. Are you sure UPnP is enabled in your Linksys config (look in the router settings).

Bonne chance

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