hey aaron, seriously, when i read your replies to peoples' questions I think you must live in some alternate universe where everyone is a genius!!!!! while i'm reading i'm thinking WTF are these people talkin about. im having probs with bearshare :0

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AAron for president of the planet! :aweof::aweof::aweof::aweof::aweof::aweof:

Hi Guys,

I was using Bearshare for years. I had never connection problems or something like that. :xeri_ok1ani:

Now one day ago I wanted to use Bearshare. I was waiting and waiting but there was still no connection. Ther first led was always flashing red. I´m using BS 5.0.2 pro btw.

I looked for the firewall status and I looked for the settings in my router. But everything was fine. My Computer is also ok (no Virus or something)

So I looked here in the gnutella forums and found that connect.zip from aaronwalkhouse. I managed to connect bearshare with that package but later on I had the same problems with the connection.

So my question is: Is bearshare now really dead? I mean this is really sad beacuse BS is the best p2p ever :idea: Is there some way to solve this problem?

Because I don´t want to change to limewire/frostwire :shoot:

I'm not sure exactly what your specific situation is, but I always eventually get connected...

do a search of this forum for PG2 (peerguardian 2)....find the relevant information and follow it...that might do the trick...

BearShare connects for me also. You DO need to update & replace your connection cache files. The older ones are out of date.

Remember to make exception for BS in your firewall. :) You might need to remove & re-do another firewall rule for the present BS you are using. Depending on which brand firewall you are using, some firewalls see different versions of a program as almost different programs altogether. And one firewall is enough. Two causes problems with p2p sharing programs.

Connection cache in AW's post or click on attachment below. ;)

Hello Everybody
I still can't connect with BearFlix and BearShare, something interesting I found out is, that I can take a connected peer from LimeWire, enter IP and Port into BearFlix and it connects successfully with that Peer.
Currently I'm using all caches from Gnutella web cache scan report and they still don't work, most of the peers have a timeout and if one is handshaking, it is Full
http://ayra.ch/temp/bfImage.bmp

Have you tried setting to Force Ultrapeer mode?

Where is this?
 

Where do I find this setting? The only one I could find is "Never become an Ultrapeer" and this is deactivated.

You are using the BS 5 Beta right? Settings -> Service, at bottom of option window.

Oops Bearflix. You can find the BS 5 Beta if you wish to use it here http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...tml#post193742

There is no such option.
The "About" Dialog tells me, that i'm using BearFlix Pro 1.1.2.1

http://ayra.ch/temp/bfService.bmp

I've never used Bearflix. To my understanding, Bearflix is what Bearshare became after it was sold to MusicLab under blackmailing pressure from the RIAA. The same company (Musiclab) hijacked ShareAza more than once. Musiclab now owns a hijacked version of Shareaza. Musiclab took over Shareaza's original website, the original creators had to find a new site. The story is partially explained here Shareaza • View topic - The Story: Shareaza, iMesh, RIAA, and Recent Events

I'm not sure how Bearflix compares with the BearShare 6 & 7, unless it's simply renamed.

As I suggested, you can try the BearShare 5 beta which was equivalent to the BS 5 Pro of the time if you wish. Might also be interested to see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/344799-post7.html about changing connection cache.

The advantage of using the old bearshare 5 Beta? Access to many more files, ability to download from all the gnutella clients like LimeWire, FrostWire, Phex, ShareAza (old version only), Gnucleus, Morpheus, Gtk-Gnutella, BearShare, etc. :)

Here's the service options window you will see in the BS 5 Beta version:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/attach...d-ultrapee.gif
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Works fine, thanks, he can connect to others, but it looks like he doesn't get enough peers. currently i got 10 Peers and 34 "Leafs", whatever this is, the tooltip on the led tells me, that he likes to get 26 Peers and 50 leafs. Some questions:
Why does he need so many peers? (with 10 i get good results)
Why does he never get 26 peers? (10 was my all time maximum and if I delete the connected peers he connect to others but again only to 10 others)
What the hell is a Leaf and why do he tries to get 50? (yesterday i had none of them)
why does the leefs have a lock in the List and the peers not?
Why is the word Leaf sometimes written in green and sometimes in black?

Bearshare can run with only being connected to 2 ultrapeers. So do not panic it cannot find the full possibility of 26 when run in ultrapeer mode.
Before you connected as an ultrapeer (a peer), you were connecting as a Leaf to an ultrapeer. Leafs need ultrapeers to connect to the network. So connecting as an ultrapeer helps the network. How many depends on what is needed by the network at the time. However the longer you stay connected the better for the network when connecting as an ultrapeer. :)

Some ultrapeers you are connected to will be marked differently if they are other BearShare ultrapeers as compared to Limewire/frostwire, etc. View Hosts window. Right-click the heading bar & choose to show more options. You can show things like version & origin, etc. You will notice all BearShare hosts will be displayed in green. Will probably also have a lock icon.

In example below. Shows example from Windows XP, connected to 16 peers (ultrapeers). And also Windows 2000, connected to 25 (16 peers, 9 leafs). (IP addresses edited out in accordance with the forum privacy rules.) It's a large image but have squashed it up as much as possible.

Working now.
 

It is working fine, thanksBut Why is it working? I can enable the Force Ultrapeer setting and connect to others. If I disable it, I get the same IP's in the Host Tab, but now they are all "Full" and not interested anymore.A Year ago when I last used the Programm it just worked fine. Can it be that there are not enough UltraPeers in the Internet?PS: I also changed the Signature, but I can still not found any Links to any commercial Sites on my Page...

Good question. I am able to connect ok not running as an ultrapeer. Hit and miss maybe. I could not answer that question. It might be related to BS's method of seeking ultrapeers. Perhaps if you connect with forced UP mode, you could maybe then undo that setting if you didn't wish to remain as an ultrapeer. However running as a UP should also give you great results. :)

And thank you about the sig. :)

plz, there is no 'old version' of Shareaza. There is only a guinee and a fake version ^^

BTW, has the BearShare code never leaked into public? I wonder because if it had, there should be somehow an open source replacement for the original client, but as I've never seen such a thing...

mfg,
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No offence intended. Poor reference.

No problem ;)

Hey guys. Im not able to connect to bearshare. I still have the red light saying 'no hosts' i downloaded the test version, those 2 links that aaronwalkhouse put up, and i also unzipped that 'connect' file inside the bearshare test folder, hoping it would let me search and its still not working. what else can I do?

Did you try forcing it into Ultrapeer mode? :) See post #62 above. ;)
re: firewall exceptions, add the Bearshare & give it both TCP & UDP exceptions as sub-rules of the same main rule.