Blocked browse
 

While monitiring, some have the browse option blocked. How can I prevent those with this option blocked from connecting to me. By god, if their not willing to share with me, I'm sure as heck not going to share with them.

See attached.

Hello?

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/new-fe...revention.html
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...oying-p2p.html

Rpbizzle

Just because you can't browse someone that does not mean they are not sharing their files.


UK Bob

Really. Tell me this then: How are they able to block browse?

I'd rather not have someone able to get something from me without at least giving me the "option" to browse them to see if they might have something of interest to me. This isn't a one way street here. :(

Looks like I'll be adding a lot of IP's to my filter. And then kick their butt off my computer.

BTW... do you have any proof of this? It this stated somewhere in a LW manual?

That's a really pathethic way of looking at things...You have been told that the browse host is not always reliable...For instance a firewall may be preventing you from seeing what a person is sharing...

I have given my IP number to a friend to browse my files and for about an hour they couldn't do it and all of a sudden it worked...

So don't be so narrow minded...:rolleyes:

Hea guess what?! It's like walking into my house, take a look around and taking anything they want without permission. Narrow minded?! Whatever! I'm 49 years old and couldn't care less what you think of me on a personal level. I have a suggestion.....send me my 18.88 back and I'll use a different program. If this is your idea of user support, I can do without it. Who the freaking hell are you to pass judgement of others anyway? Your not God. I think something is fishy about the truth of this blocked browse issue.

I see no point of even having this browse option when 99.999999% of them are blocked. I've only added about 30 IP's to the filter this morning.

Can you say: Backdoor?

I forgot "original poster not willing to listen to the answer" in reasons stated in other thread.

Funny. My fingers are getting sore from all the IP's I have had to the filter this morning. It's MY bandwidth and I'll say who is welcome to use it.

Hea....here's a suggestion (thought of due to sore fingers), add the option of "add IP to filter" to the list of other monitor options.
The Kill Upload option is getting worn out and the extra option would greatly save time and allow my fingers to heal.

Inability to Browse Shared Directory
 

Rpbizzle

You asked: Let me tell you that my shared folder cannot be browsed by others, not because it is a deliberate action on my part but a consequence of the security equipment (both hardware and software) I use.

First, I have a modem router, containing a NAT table/firewall, that will automatically reject any internet communication that was not initiated by my PC.

Second, I have installed Norton Personal Firewall, fully set to stealth all ports and reject anything that has not been requested.

Third, I have switched off the “chat” function within LW, I understand that without “chat” the browse function has difficulty working.

However, despite that I can download from others and I can monitor other P2P users downloading files from me.

Finally, there is no function within LW that can tell you whether someone is or is not sharing their files.

Therefore, your idea (or feeling) that “if you cannot browse someone they are not sharing their files” is entirely false.



UK Bob

Therefore, your idea (or feeling) that “if you cannot browse someone they are not sharing their files” is entirely false.
(unquote)

BS. LW needs to address this problem as I will not tolerate people coming into MY living quarters (so to speak) and take up bandwidth from those out there that are unafraid and willing to be browsed. I think theres something fishy about all this. You let who ever you wish into your house but I'll have a little say so who comes into MINE.

You seem to passing the judgement, by blocking every IP you can't browse...
Tell you what why don't you make this complaint to the developers of limewire and stop spamming this forum with all your crap...:blink:

Yeah...why don't you direct me to the "developers" so I can get some HELP. Don't worry about who I decide to block from my computer. It's NONE of your business. Excuse the hell out of me but I thought this site WAS/IS/HAS/HAD something to do with Limewire.

You are a sad angry little man aren't you...
Go to Limewire's support, you paid for it so whinge to them...

He's got a point though
 

I'm not sure that the feedback is particularly helpful here. I have the same gripe in a way and rightly or wrongly see it as follows:

My understanding is that Browse Host means that people can look at the "room in your house" that you've agreed to let people share already. But if you can't browse that room then surely they can't be sharing.:bangh:

I'm prepared to accept that its a sporadic state and that people who are sometimes not open maybe at other times; so filtering them may not be the best solution.

What I'd like would be preference given to people who are available. At the moment, when I can be bothered, I kill the upload of people who's host I can't browse in favour of queued people whose files are available. An automatic way of doing this seems like a good idea to me.

One final thought - A large amount of people who I can browse have little or nothing in their "room" - maybe they're the real freeloaders who you should be filtering.

Jesus, take a chill **** rpbizzle. The spirit of P2P is one of open access. The person who is downloading from you could be 13 or 73, they may be still wrestling with how to go about using LW or maybe they have just started using it and ain`t built up anything to share as yet. Nobody is entering your home, you designated a share folder when you set up the program and deemed it ok for people to access it when you did so. I don`t view access to my share folder as a personal one to one issue, this is a community and I open my folder to that community because the community opens its folders to me.

I don't guess you took the time to view the date of my message.....at any rate, I very seldom ever use Limewire anymore and when I do....you can place a sure bet that if anyone tries to download from me and I'm unable to browse them.... will be politely remove from MY house. LOL :cheesy:

lol you're a loser, dude.

I find you hard to understand rpbizzle, in all honesty I think you may just have a problem with the world in general and are looking for a soapbox to stand on to vent your inner rage. Ain`t there a bit of duality going on here? You are using LW and may quite conceivably be using it to download copyrighted material, but while you are at it you appear to be wishing to apply a form of copyright of your own, namely, if there is nothing in it for you then they ain`t having what you have either. I have never searched an uploaders share folder, I am not interested in looking as if I want something I use the search and seek it from there. I stress again that this is a community we are in, if you start to see this as a personal one on one venture then maybe you need to re-assess your viewpoint.

You have your option and I have mine. I PAYED my 18.88 (or whatever it was) and I think I have a right to use it anyway I wish. Just in case you you didn't know it, 99.9999% of those that don't allow themself's to be browsed....don't have anything anyway.

On another note: Are the Admin's of this site going to just sit back and let people sling mud at me? This get PERSONAL towards me is crossing the line and is intended to do nothing but to insult me.

I'm not getting why you even bother to answer them. You say yourself, that you have moved on and hardly use Limewire anymore. It's good for some, and not for others, so be it.

For the record I don't use it either. There was just a reply notification in my email inbox.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I couldn't care less if I could browse someone's shared files as long as I get the one I'm looking for at the time. Sheesh.

No "Browse Host" No transfer!!!!
 

When THEY get that fixed, I may be willing to share files with them!

If they want files from ME and I can't Browse them then I Kill Upload!:nono:

Right now 1 at a time till the programmers of Limewire add the Dissallow "disabled Browse Host" transfers.