Ports!!!
 

ok, i always could never get connected to any gnutella or X-Chat server becuase i think my ports are blocked. Running Mandrake 8.1 Is there a way, or command to enter a open port for programs to use???

Ok, the only thing i can get to work with no problems ever are ICQ, and internet. Xchat doesnt work, guntella doesnt work, limewire doesnt work.

All of these applications have problems connecting so how do i OPEN ALL MY PORTS??

a please doesn't go a miss....

you need to take down your fire wall, or learn iptables to make it work the way you want it to. easier to nuke it. go to dakconf as i already said, and remove the fw.

If only it was that easy to find the package you want to delete! i click search and type "firewall" and it says it cant find anything which i CANT believe is true becuase it took a millisecond for it to pop up.

What do i do to configure iptables? i tried typing in iptables and it didnt work.

iptables
 

iptables, and most of what you want to do here in linux is not as simple as running a program (ala windoze). iptables, for example, is commonly used in scripts that are run at boot time. lookup 'iptables examples' on google.com and start reading.

some distributions have built-in startup firewall scripts - there may be a utility in your gui that may be easy to configure (on/off). in redhat, simply run setup and select the firewall menu. there may be some equivalent in mdk.

There is a utility in Mandrake that will run a wizard setup for the firewall.
I think it's in the mandrake control center and under the security section. There's two there, and off the top of my head, it's the second one.

Yes, i know but it doesnt work.

I dont understand this stuff, i just want to be able to run programs like X-Chat without port problems. Someone must know a script-free way of doing it!!! i mean it worked a few days ago!!

if it worked a few days ago, without you changing anything on your system... it doesn't sound like a port problem on your end then....

Actually i did change a few things here and there, like installing programs and stuff but its gotta be the port becuase the internet works, and ICQ works too.

Here is the FUNNY part about it:

it works when i log in as root

It must be the way my user profile starts up that messes up EVERYTHING. Is there a way to reset the startup script or whatever happens when you start KDE? When i try to run X-Chat as root it gives me a error and bans me from the server if i'm root! i need to be a user to use X-chat

Ok its gotta be a hacker or my ISP messing it up becuase it no longer works anymore under the root login!, i think they dont want me to use Linux. its ATT broadband.

Its alright, i am about to try FreeBSD on my other machine and if it works i'll use that computer just for X-Chat. Its a shame stupid things like this happen in linux and you have no way of finding out what the hell is wrong with it.

I thought you may want to know this. First of all I am a newbie. I just started to play with Linux in December. To answer the question on how to turn off a firewall using iptables just use the iptables with the stop command. (iptables stop)

Hope this helps in the future.

- Zychior