Thanx for reply Birdy...seems like you have been down this road b4 and had success helping others. I would be grateful if that was the case again.

History:
I am working on a PC with a T1 connection at my remote office. I utilize Cisco to connect to my server in corp but do not utilize this utility when accessing LW. I started by d/l'ng LW 4.12.4 and it worked right off the bat. Then about four days into it, the globe came up and would not connect when searching. I upgraded to version 6, then confirmed Gnutella ports using the customized number that was listed when walking through the process, confirmed access exception at Win Security Center - Firewall options. I am stuck...Maybe one of our jedi warrior administrators for the company (tech oriented co) messed it up and blocked it out all of a sudden?

How do I check what other firewalls are blocking LW currently? I run PC / Windows XP Pro / LW4.12.6 / Cisco Pix 506 E Firewall VPN / Verizon T1

I think I now have port forwarding and UpNP enabled...neither seem to be working.

Any clue?

gotafix

If you're connecting from work, you might find that the company has an anti-p2p policy & won't let you connect. Lots of employers do this just because they don't want employees sharing (often inadvertantly) sensitive files. You're really going to have to talk to admin & find out what the policy is. I'd also ask them if they've recently blocked anything.

I'm a bit confused re your firewalls. You've got a Cisco firewall but you said that you don't utilise this utility when accessing LW... do you turn off the Cisco firewall before you open LW?
You'll run into problems if you're using 2 software firewalls, they'll just interfere with each other. So, if you're going to run the Cisco firewall, turn the XP one off.

Do you see any green connection bars at all? Did you do that port test? If the test doesn't work, it means that LW's default port is blocked.

Thanks for the detail and continued support.

I did speak with an administrator behind the green curtain and he said it is against our company security policy to allow p2p.

In response to your port probing, there are no green bars lit up anymore (was for a few days). How do I check to see if my port is blocked again? I am going to walk through that scenario one more time and see if I luck out.

thanX,
gotafix

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I am behind 128 bit encrypted environment.