Connection and hashing questions

[grindy]

Hi all,

Here's what I'm using:
XP SP3
Shareaza 2.5.2.0 32bit, connection test passes just fine.

I just installed/configured Shareaza on an older XP system to be dedicated to P2P (actually not that old, but plenty of power/ram etc.)
I have consulted the Wiki and "query'd" the GWebCaches and added new GWebCaches ( lots show hosts/urls/accesses etc.)

My 2 problems:

1) Shareaza has been running for over an hour and is still "Connecting" to Gnutella2.
What should I check or do to get it to connect?

2) Shareaza shows that it is "Scanning and Processing 32729 files".
I used the "default" settings for "shared folders", so how is it scanning that many files?

I've used Shareaza in years past with no abnormal problems other than the usual router/firewall stuff and it worked just fine....
Any/all suggestions appreciated...

[ocexyz]

re1) read "Shareaza Instal Guide" by OldDeath. Check what is written there, if problem not solved ask here again - not enough info, at last for me.
re2) check carefully and immidiatelly if by accident Shareaza is not sharing whole your disk. Just check carefully in Shareaza settings all set folders. For obvious reasons that would not be good if you would share to much of your data IMHO.

[old_death]

@1) You can also find some useful information on the Troubleshoot wiki page.
@2) The Library window should show you the files and folders that are in your shares. There you can find out what files Shareaza is hashing. (Not yet hashed files are in darker gray color)

[shopboy]

hoping for more info on this issue. I've happily been using an older version of shareaza for some time - 2.?????. Anyway, a couple of days ago, it just seemed to stop working. The status just went to "connecting" on G2, and stayed that way. I've since upgraded to the latest version - same problem. Nothing has changed on my system - in the way of firewall, antivirus, etc. It just stopped working.

When you click connect, it just stays saying connecting and stays that way till you finally have enough and close it down again, a look at the info screen shows


[14:55:08] Accepting incoming TCP connections on 0.0.0.0 port 6346.
[14:55:08] Listening for UDP datagrams on 0.0.0.0 port 6346.
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 76.110.208.69 port 10936...
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 114.24.190.107 port 7191...
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 114.47.199.156 port 5189...
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 116.48.115.142 port 6632...
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 118.167.197.51 port 12550...
[14:55:08] Unable to initiate a neighbour connection with 76.110.208.69 (refused).
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 119.236.126.230 port 8811...
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 122.125.39.35 port 11919...
[14:55:08] Unable to initiate a neighbour connection with 119.236.126.230 (refused).
[14:55:08] Initiating a neighbour connection to 210.6.207.124 port 21391...
[14:55:08] Unable to initiate a neighbour connection with 122.125.39.35 (refused).

.....

[15:27:39] Timed out connecting to 219.78.77.239.
[15:27:39] Initiating a neighbour connection to 210.6.99.224 port 5845...
[15:27:41] Timed out connecting to 122.120.214.244.
[15:27:41] Initiating a neighbour connection to 210.6.141.80 port 9085...
[15:27:49] Timed out connecting to 61.230.71.23.
[15:27:49] Initiating a neighbour connection to 218.102.163.76 port 11515...
[15:27:50] Timed out connecting to 82.16.99.8.
[15:27:50] Initiating a neighbour connection to 220.246.150.205 port 12437...
[15:27:51] Timed out connecting to 113.52.123.198.
[15:27:51] Initiating a neighbour connection to 86.153.34.206 port 22346...
[15:27:53] Timed out connecting to 119.77.222.32.
[15:27:53] Initiating a neighbour connection to 210.6.158.32 port 14179...
[15:27:55] Timed out connecting to 210.6.99.224.
[15:27:55] Initiating a neighbour connection to 218.164.87.167 port 15888...
[15:27:57] Timed out connecting to 210.6.141.80.
[15:27:57] Initiating a neighbour connection to 218.250.52.121 port 10105...

Connecting to G1 works, but edonkey doesn't either

The connection test passes by the way, and I've read the guides above, but still no further forward

Surely there can't be just the 2 of us that are having this problem. A google search shows nothing recent about it. Hopefully someone can give an actual fix or advice, other than "read this"

[old_death]

Just run the installer again and ask it to reset the discovery and host cache.

BTW, if you use a more recent version, this is more probable to work as newer versions also contain more recent cache addresses.

[shopboy]

thanks OD, will try that, I didn't select the reset when I installed, as I didn't want to lose partial downloads etc. Any idea why it just stopped working? Literally it just stopped working, hadn't even been shutdown in the meantime, 1 minute it was merrily downloading, (and has been for ages) the next time I looked, it was saying "connecting"

It's 2.5.2.0 I'm using now, but it was 2.3.something I think, that just stopped connecting, hence me taking the latest version to see if that fixed it

[old_death]