[Linux-disciples] nicotine

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On 1/25/2007 11:36 AM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:38:30AM -0600, Karl Sokol wrote:
>> My sister-in-law can do everything but download on nicotine.  That is, she can
>> chat, she can search for files etc., and I can retrieve files from her computer
>> with mine, but each and every time she tries to download, she gets a 'cannot
>> connect' error.  We tried changing the ports and are reasonably sure that we
>> have the port forwarding correct etc., but to no avail.  Has anybody come
>> across this?
> I'm not familiar with nicotine, though Debian tells me
> nicotine - graphical client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer system
> Without knowing the specifics of SoulSeek, I'd use a
> general-purpose tool like Ethereal or netstat to figure out
> what ports they're trying to access. I don't know that I'd
> have specific advice beyond that.

If she's behind a NAT (router), there can be problems with any P2P
client, especially if the other end of the transaction is also behind a
NAT. NATs vary in undocumented ways as to their behavior in opening
ports -- see, e.g., symmetrical vs. full cone vs. restricted cone NAT.
Have you tried configure the router to forward the SoulSeek ports
directly to the internal client's NAT IP address?