ML Donkey anyone ??

[Francis X. Maier]

Vince,

It seems like I have ML Donkey up and running, but no server lists.  
How do I get the server to show and refresh?

Fran


On Nov 28, 2004, at 2:38 AM, Trouilliez Vincent wrote:

>
> I got a headache trying to get the GUI to work - and didn't succeed.
>
>
>  ? That's bad. Once downloaded with Synpatic, I only had to start the 
> back-end by typing 'mlnet' in a terminal, then starting the GUI by 
> typing 'mlgui' in another terminal and it worked fine...
>
>
>
> I have twelve downloads going on and I'm connected to Donkey and G2
> (Gnutella2?). Should these be called networks or servers? It says on my
> screen that I'm "Connected to 4 servers on the Donkey network" and
> "Connected to 4 servers on the G2 network". As you can see I'm new to
> this file sharing thing.
>
>
>  I am fairly new to P2P too, only used very occasionally.
>
>  Edonkey and Gnutella are 'networks', each of them containing 
> containing thouands of 'servers'. A 'server' being any personal 
> computer connected to said network, who made his local file public. 
> So, as soon as you start MLDonkey, you become a 'server'.
>  That's my very limited understand of the system...probably all BS ;o)
>  And I don't understand why there are several networks. Since they all 
> do the same thing, would be much easier to have one network, rather 
> having things like MLDonkey that have to manage 7 different 
> networks...
>
>  Vince --
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