Hello!

I'm running Limewire pro and I notice that there is never any upload activity going on even though I have over 1000 files to share.

I have been told that ubuntu's default is to never listen on ANY ports, so I was wondering if anyone can tell me how I go about opening a port.

In the limewire options it shows that Limewire is set to listen on port 14983. How do I check/open that port?

Thanks!

You could try running the netstat -ln command in a terminal. This will tell you what ports your PC is listening on. If it's not there you would have to open a port most likely via IPTables. That can be done via command line as well and it would look something like this (Don't use this rule directly because it may not be as secure as necessary):
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Thanks, My Friend! I was begining to wonder if I was Black-Balled from LQ!

I entered the command, netstat -ln and in fact, 14983 is not there.

So, How do I go about opening port 14983 "via IPTables"?

First I would check to see if it's installed on your machine. Do that using whatever package manager your distribution uses. Next you are going to have to open the port on your machine using IPTables. The command I gave in my previous post would be a good start. You are going to have to find out which protocol Limewire uses (UDP or TCP or BOTH) and what ports it needs open. Then after that you can use the command I gave here as a starting point. If you google IPTables there is the holy grail of IPTables tutorials and you'll have all the information you need on it.

Now that I think of it. You should also let us know of your network setup. Are you behind a router? If so you might have to use your routers "Port Forwarding" feature instead. Sorry if this is all confusing but we'll get it going for ya

Hi!

Yes, I am behind a router. That just came to me as well this morning!

I'll start searching on google again.

Thank you for your help!

Not sure why there's been no result (for me, too).
"netstat -ln | grep <port>" should show an open port in contrast. On the other hand, System >> Administration >> Network Tools >> Port Scan either doesn't show this port as open. So I'm not sure.

Another question: netstat should always list the ports before the router.

And still another thing: Dapper's repos contain FrostWire, a LimeWire clone without that fooking nag screen.

Yeah, I know about Frostwire. It's just that I purchased Limewire pro a long time ago when I was using Windoze and dont want to not use it. It does seem to have a faster download rate and results than the free version or frostwire.

But even with frostwire, I still am closed to incoming connections. Must be the router, but I recall that once a long time ago, I did not have to do anything to my router.

It's not that important really, but I would like to share files since that is really the whole idea.