Thanks to both of ya,,, My FW is zone alarm pro aint gotta clue how to configure it tho lol looks like ill be getting my head in the links you gave and the ZA help file ,,, not really sure how ill no if iv set it right im assumeing it will tell me in the LW links you gave ,,, anyway ill give it ago tomorrow and post in here how i get on ,,,

cheers nismo,

Not sure if this is any additional help http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=38788

Ok i checked everything all seems ok ,,, my ZA firewall is set to allow javaw.exe ,, my XP firewall is set to off ,,, my router says Upnp is set by default anyway ,,, so how do i now check how good (or how many stars) my limewire is ?

After connecting Limewire go to tools>options>bug reports and press example bugreport. Then scroll down to "recieved incoming this session". If it says "true" then everything is good.

If it says false then there is still work to do.

it says FALSE , Ok ill shut down ZA to see if its that if not it must be my router right?

Right i re-checked everything, made a mistake on my router settings and it is now set to upnp enabled,(with the belkin G router this is disabled by default) ,,, tried it still the same,, so as i said above i i then shut down my ZA and it now show TRUE ,,, ill go through my ZA settings again but javaw.exe is definatly active and all ticked apart from email ? (we dont need this ticked right?) is there anyother settings in ZA anyone might know of that could be stopping this ?

Ill also try updateing my ZA then going through the set up again and see if it picks up limewire !!!!!

it still says false with ZA shut down ,,,, do i have to wait for someone to try and upload something before i can view the bug report ?

Ok finally set up ! The easiest way i found to set up the ZA was to uninstall it then with LW running re-install it, The router was set to disable Upnp by default (something worth checking in your router settings as my box says Upnp set to enable by default) ,,,, now there is no wall in my LW FW icon and the session is as follows ,,, Is this now right ?



-- listing session information --
Current thread: AWT-EventQueue-0
Active Threads: 17
Uptime: 11:32
Is Connected: true
Number of Ultrapeer -> Ultrapeer Connections: 0
Number of Ultrapeer -> Leaf Connections: 0
Number of Leaf -> Ultrapeer Connections: 5
Number of Old Connections: 0
Acting as Ultrapeer: false
Acting as Shielded Leaf: true
Number of Active Uploads: 0
Number of Queued Uploads: 0
Number of Active Managed Downloads: 0
Number of Active HTTP Downloaders: 0
Number of Waiting Downloads: 0
Received incoming this session: true
Number of Shared Files: 30
Guess Capable: false
Received Solicited UDP: true
SIMPP version: 54
Port Stable: true
FWT Capable: true
Last Reported Port: 32824
External Port: 32824
IP Pongs Received: 0
Number of Content Response URNs: 0
Number of CreationTimeCache URNs: 24
VF Byte Cache Size: 0
VF Verify Cache Size: 0
VF Queue Size: 0
ByteBuffer Cache Size: 0
Number of Waiting Sockets: 0
Number of Pending Timeouts: 0

Looks alright now.

If your friends set up is correct as well, then you should be able to direct-connect. If that works then there is no doubt that the set up is correct

BTW if you use UPnP without a static IP then there is a chance that your IP will change often. Just look under the direct connect tab in Limewire after opening it. It will show IP+Portnumber. That's the exact number she would have to enter to connect to you.

Ok will do thanks everone for all ya help :-)

OK AFTER READING THE INTERNET AND DIFFERNT FORUMS. IVE LEARNED TO ADD FOLDER TO LIBRARY AND LOOK FOR MY SHARED FOLDER AND IT COPYS INTO ITUNES. NOW THE QUESTION IS. I DOWNLOADED MORE AND I DID IT AGAIN AND IT MADE COPIES IN MY ITUNES LIBRARY -
QUESTION I HAVE IS WHEN I KEEP DOWNLOADING INTO LIMEWIRE AND I DO THE ADD FOLDER . HOW CAN I STOP IT FROM COPIING EVERYTHING OVER AGAIN. AND JUST COPY OF THE FILES IT HAS NOT NOT COPIED YET