dsoslglece
January 1st, 2007, 05:37 AM
Hi, every one, I find on ZP window, a greeting saying I didnd't post since a while... thanks anyway, but I had some stuf to handle first, and appart of it, I came recently once or twice, and read some posts, but didn't have any reasonable answer to it... but today, I'd like to ask some help about Ants.
I like the little app and its working principle, and, appart of the fact that its net is still in the process of being built, and so, has little to offer (at least in the type of music I'm only interested for), I like to have it running, and to give access for uploads, to all my shared files.
But, together whith that, I keep using mostly eDonkey for my personnal DL, (and some time also LimeWire, but principally Like Ants, to share my own files, since otherwise, most of the stuf LW proposes is porn)...
So, Ants, after some installing problems, which had been resolved in using the "antsp2p.jnlp" instead of "AntsP2P setup" or even the direct terminal install... after those problems had been resolved, it worked correctly for quite a few weeks...
Unfortunately, at that time, I had to change my ISP which was almost filtering to death all my p2p (except for ants, that I suppose was not detected).... Now, everything then is back to normal, and in proper working conditions, and the donkey is downloading and uploading full blast, without trouble... but I had some adjustments to do, since after some difficulties with p2p, I discovered that new ISP works with a router, and so I had to config it which is new to me.
So, I did that to eD2k, to LimeWire (inspite of it having worked its way already by itself through all firewalls and router), and I config also the router for Ants in the same way: opening the ports 4567 and 4568, like they are entered in the settings (according to the one sugested for OSX... I forgot to say I'm running OS X 10.4.6 and 10.4.8).
But, since its new install with that new ISP, it doesn't connects to anything... It installs perfectly, I am able to enter all data about path to complete, shunks, shared (and now, all the shared files appear on the share window) only one thing doesn't register correctly (it never did !) : the path to the browser (Firefox). It seems to look OK in the settings, but it always says it can't acces to it... But that last problem has always been here, even when Ants was working, UPloading and Downloading correctly.
I've think (I do some time), that maybe something is wrong at the number given for my proper number...
I'm not sure if I have to give my computer number (it seemed to work with the previous ISP), the IPV6 one, starting with fe80:0000 etc... but when ants finds it by itself, the groups of four zeros are resumed to only one zero for each group, and if I try to correct it, it refuses it.
I've also try the routers number, and my IP, but Ants refuses it... I also read in the FAQs that one shouldn't use any number like 192.168.... etc...
Appart of that, I did recently a little discovery:
in running LimeWire, there is the indication that LW has detected a firewall. Of course LW works OK since it can find it's way through any firewall, but THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY FIRE WALL detected ! (previously, when the proper holes were digged through the FireWall, it indicated "LW has not detected a FireWall")
I opened the proper entries in MAC's FireWall ports, and have disabled permanently my router's firewall, since mine is certainly more performing... I've verified that peer guardian is completely off, and that not only net barrier is off, but also its part called antivandal, wich can work invisibly... I'm not running any antivirus (only from time to time before sending something to a friend running windows), so that shouldn't either be a problem...
I've tried to run Ants from any of my two OS, and the result is similar in both cases... So, I'd be very grateful if someone had piece of missed datum, an Idea or a tip... thanks in advance.
I like the little app and its working principle, and, appart of the fact that its net is still in the process of being built, and so, has little to offer (at least in the type of music I'm only interested for), I like to have it running, and to give access for uploads, to all my shared files.
But, together whith that, I keep using mostly eDonkey for my personnal DL, (and some time also LimeWire, but principally Like Ants, to share my own files, since otherwise, most of the stuf LW proposes is porn)...
So, Ants, after some installing problems, which had been resolved in using the "antsp2p.jnlp" instead of "AntsP2P setup" or even the direct terminal install... after those problems had been resolved, it worked correctly for quite a few weeks...
Unfortunately, at that time, I had to change my ISP which was almost filtering to death all my p2p (except for ants, that I suppose was not detected).... Now, everything then is back to normal, and in proper working conditions, and the donkey is downloading and uploading full blast, without trouble... but I had some adjustments to do, since after some difficulties with p2p, I discovered that new ISP works with a router, and so I had to config it which is new to me.
So, I did that to eD2k, to LimeWire (inspite of it having worked its way already by itself through all firewalls and router), and I config also the router for Ants in the same way: opening the ports 4567 and 4568, like they are entered in the settings (according to the one sugested for OSX... I forgot to say I'm running OS X 10.4.6 and 10.4.8).
But, since its new install with that new ISP, it doesn't connects to anything... It installs perfectly, I am able to enter all data about path to complete, shunks, shared (and now, all the shared files appear on the share window) only one thing doesn't register correctly (it never did !) : the path to the browser (Firefox). It seems to look OK in the settings, but it always says it can't acces to it... But that last problem has always been here, even when Ants was working, UPloading and Downloading correctly.
I've think (I do some time), that maybe something is wrong at the number given for my proper number...
I'm not sure if I have to give my computer number (it seemed to work with the previous ISP), the IPV6 one, starting with fe80:0000 etc... but when ants finds it by itself, the groups of four zeros are resumed to only one zero for each group, and if I try to correct it, it refuses it.
I've also try the routers number, and my IP, but Ants refuses it... I also read in the FAQs that one shouldn't use any number like 192.168.... etc...
Appart of that, I did recently a little discovery:
in running LimeWire, there is the indication that LW has detected a firewall. Of course LW works OK since it can find it's way through any firewall, but THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY FIRE WALL detected ! (previously, when the proper holes were digged through the FireWall, it indicated "LW has not detected a FireWall")
I opened the proper entries in MAC's FireWall ports, and have disabled permanently my router's firewall, since mine is certainly more performing... I've verified that peer guardian is completely off, and that not only net barrier is off, but also its part called antivandal, wich can work invisibly... I'm not running any antivirus (only from time to time before sending something to a friend running windows), so that shouldn't either be a problem...
I've tried to run Ants from any of my two OS, and the result is similar in both cases... So, I'd be very grateful if someone had piece of missed datum, an Idea or a tip... thanks in advance.