I'm having a similar problem. I was able to get Qtella to accept incoming connections but it only can down load if I run it as root. another question I have is the whole force IP thing. My installation only seams to work if I force the IP of my firewall/madquerading machine. The problem is that the address changes since I'm on a cable modem and don't have a static IP, is there some way around this? I remember when I was running bearshare from my old windows platform I didn't have these issues. The program is great though and would really like to iron out these little problems.. thanks