Posted by angrie.woman on 12/03/05 18:16

I have winmx installed on my desktop - runs fine.

DH wants me to install it on his XP laptop, which belongs to his
company.

Am I going to be able to do this? I downloaded v3.53, and tried to
install it. I didn't get very far. I saw "WinMX was unable to make an
outgoing TCP connection to it's test servers. This could be because
this computer isn't directly connected to the internet, you are an a
LAN, and need to use a SOCKS proxy server to make outgoing TCP
connections, or there is a temporary network problem."

I tried to go into network settings to start exploring the firewall
status and such, but I see a message that says something like "Some
settings are disabled because you don't have authorization to change
them" and sure enough - it does not appear that he can acess the
firewall settings.

Now, many of you here know me well enough to realize that most of these
messages might as well be Chinese to me. I know he is running XP, this
is a company laptop, he is plugged into my home desktop's DSL modem,
and (according to his Network Settings) Local Area Connection 3 (Cisco
Systems VPN Adapter) is enabled.

I really appreciate any help, but please be as simple as possible -
things like ports, servers, and other things are about 2 notches above
my comprehension level.

Is there anything I can do, or is he just bound to be MXless?

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