If running Xolox at home and you have your computer directly connected to the internet, there should be no problem at all (after replacing the lastest hostslist.txt).

But it might happen that you are behind a firewall and not allowed to use filesharing (Gnutella), using Xolox at a university or company network might be blocked. Can you use any other Gnutella client like Phex, Limewire or Bearshare? (if Bearshare don't forget not to install the Spyware, which can be choosen at installation time). Yuu find a fine overview at Zeropaid.
If one of the above mentioned clients works, also Xolox will work. If no gnutella client works you should change your firewall/proxy settings or talk with your local network administrator.

Does it help? Cya, Moak

PS: What is "A SHODDY POS AT BEST"? I'm not that good in english, sorry.

1 more thing.... You should give xolox a few minutes to make a connection, it needs time to find and connect to working "hosts".

I kept thinking it wasn't working... finally gave up and went on to the next thing.... and when I came back it was up n runnin.

The cant connect message stays up in the window even when it has connected. Look down bottom to see if connected, then try running a search

Hi,
for some reason xolox is still not working for me. I'm running Windoz 95, with xolox v.1.12
I downloaded the host files posted and pasted them into the xolox directory while the xolox program was closed. But xolox still tells me it can't connect!
Any further ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thx.

Hi,
for some reason xolox is still not working for me. I'm running Windoz 95, with xolox v.1.12
I downloaded the host files posted and pasted them into the xolox directory while the xolox program was closed. But xolox still tells me it can't connect!
Any further ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thx.

Hi, for some new users it might be too difficult to download a fresh hostslist, so lets try this:

Start Xolox and go into Menu -> Tools -> Preferences
Then enter 'Gnutellahost': public.bearshare.net
'port' goes into next input box: 6436

Click "Add ", you'll see a message "New host added", close the preferences and wait a minute. Does it help? You can do this whenever you have a connect error.

PS: here are more hosts caches. Enter name and port as above, do not enter the ':' (it's only a seperator):

connect1.gnutellanet.com:6346
connect2.gnutellanet.com:6346
connect3.gnutellanet.com:6346
connect4.gnutellanet.com:6346
gnutella.hostscache.com:6346
gnotella.fileflash.com:6346
router.limewire.com:6346
gnutella.hostscache.com:6346
gnet2.ath.cx:6346

PS: some more links
http://www.gnutella.co.uk/servers/ (current host caches list)
http://gnutellaforums.com/showthread...t=hex+AND+edit

Have tried ALL aforementioned strategies posted here to date to NO AVAIL. Note: version 1.12 is installed and winme is the OS

xolox connects for me, but not until after running down through the whole host list, and then i can search but not download. any help?
thanks