ML Donkey anyone ??

[Ari Torhamo]

Hi,

After getting MLDonkey and the graphical interface installed I think I
just searched for files and started downloading. I don't remember having
to touch any server settings.

Ari


su, 2004-11-28 kello 18:32 -0700, Francis X. Maier kirjoitti:
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> 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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