Author Topic: connection to WinMX (Read 4728 times)

JollyRoger · « **on:** July 02, 2007, 07:14:19 pm »

Hi i have tried all the download patches and i still am not able to connect to WinMX.
has anybody got any ideas what is wrong, and how i can get a connection please
Thank you

Joshua203 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2007, 08:12:58 pm »

hi there,

have you tried these?

http://home.tiscali.nl/winmx/DownLoadz/hostsLatest.rar

or

http://home.tiscali.nl/winmx/DownLoadz/winmxfix%2520for%2520windows.zip

these should be the latest as far as i know they should even block file flooders again

top one is the manual one and the second the auto patcher

webtech54 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2007, 04:41:36 am »

King Macro went offline....he is tired of messing with a bunch of sniffiling, winers, who don't know shit about what is really happening runnning a peer group net such as winmx. It is a pain in the rear......one of you youngsters get to work and get it back up......

Scyre · « **Reply #3 on:** July 03, 2007, 04:43:37 am »

NEW PATCH!

https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/connection.html

(some of the youngster pulled through lmao)

Be Good!

SILVER SURFER · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2007, 06:39:19 pm »

both links are dead ends Joshua and also the patch has a virus embedded in it. My aniti-virus program picked it up imediately.

Victim · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2007, 11:59:07 pm »

Download the newest patch from here:

https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/connection.html

Then restart winmx and your PC.

Thanks.

Scott · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2007, 10:38:48 pm »

i tried the new patch and still nothing...i connect just fine ...just not uploading or downloading...

tig · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2007, 11:30:04 pm »

Hi Scott

Could you please answer a few things for me.

Have you checked the ports in both winmx and router/modem?

Do you have firewalls going?

I would first check my ports. Than I would go to the firewalls and unallow winmx. Than allow them again.

Please let us know how it goes.

termite · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2007, 04:57:14 am »

My continued battle with WinMx going off line and trying to get my daughter's and my PCs to function the same as before is blowing me out. I spent all day yesterday getting mine right thinking my daughters was OK BUT now my daughters PC is playing up with an error report saying ''System 32/host file missing'' etc. Closing this report makes her lose everything as well as disconnects the sound-card as well as other key features fail to respond.WE both get in our anti-virus programs a message saying ''Host file changed" even though it doesn't detect it as a virus I wonder why the hell it appears...
I'll get it all together I know but this latest crisis of winmx has defiantly changed my opinion of what I thought was the best and only file sharing program.
I love to have a whinge and I still and always will LOVE WinMx.

tig · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2007, 05:00:05 am »

Termite

Come in and see us again... As some of us have more knowledge about get things rights between 2 computers.

DanceDance · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2007, 11:22:11 pm »

Quote from: termite on July 06, 2007, 04:57:14 am

WE both get in our anti-virus programs a message saying ''Host file changed" even though it doesn't detect it as a virus I wonder why the hell it appears...

The new patch modifies your Windows hosts file when you launch WinMX, and again after you close WinMX. This is now normal behavior, and the change it makes to your hosts file is minor and should not affect any other aspect of your computer or Internet connection.

Your anti-virus software will bark at you because programs typically don't need to change the hosts file, but in this case the change is harmless and it is safe to allow WinMX to do so every time.

Mishii · « **Reply #11 on:** July 08, 2007, 04:56:30 am »

Hello,
I have a big problem. The patch will not finish installing for me. It tries to make a windows directory on Drive C: and I don't have my hard drive set up as C:. Is there any way around this?

tig · « **Reply #12 on:** July 08, 2007, 06:46:41 am »

HI Mishii

Try it this way.

1. go to were the file is
2. left click on the file
3. go to run as
4. it may come up who u want this available for
5. click ok
6. it should come up with a screen say installing WMW patch
7. click on next
8. you should see a destination area. change that to where you have winmx
9. click next
10 . let file run
11. open winmx

I hope this has helped. Please let us know if it hasn't.

Mishi · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2007, 03:41:18 pm »

Unfortunately, it's still not working.

The installer will let me pick the destination drive, but I keep getting "Windows No Disk" errors. Finally, I get a error that tells me that the program can't set up a directory on C:.

Bearded Blunder · « **Reply #14 on:** July 09, 2007, 04:19:22 pm »

just drop the attatched dll in your winmx program folder, if you've added an entries in your hosts file redirecting winmxgroup, remove them, should be fine

Mishi · « **Reply #15 on:** July 09, 2007, 04:54:06 pm »

Quote from: Bearded Blunder on July 09, 2007, 04:19:22 pm

just drop the attatched dll in your winmx program folder, if you've added an entries in your hosts file redirecting winmxgroup, remove them, should be fine

Thank you so much!!! That did the trick.

madkatz1 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 11, 2007, 03:50:48 am »

Hello all,
Is there a latest sticky posted about newer patches available for WMX? I have never had a problem connecting on primary except for tonight. I even tried secondary and the yellow flashed forever! My ports are all correct - checked port forwarding last week.
I am running WM v. 3.53 and all has been great, until now

I have Win XP sp2, IE6, XP firewall on, Avast anti-virus on, Peer Guardian 2 and MXpie Patch. Any ideas on what I should check/update? Thanks...

Bearded Blunder · « **Reply #17 on:** July 11, 2007, 08:41:37 am »

https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/connection.html
has links to the latest recommended patch which has distinct advantages over the pie/peerguardian combination
the blocking is more efficient (you don't need to run a whole separate program for it)
i's more accurately targetted at those attacking winmx
it's more effective at the user level, because it also blocks those fake search results we're being flooded with

madkatz1 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 13, 2007, 11:45:35 am »

Thanks Bearded Blunder... dl'd the new patch and all is well! But for how long.... before some ass decides to screw around with it again? I'll enjoy it while I have it... thanks so much to all involved for all your diligent and hard work to keep WM going!

Me Here · « **Reply #19 on:** July 13, 2007, 12:39:35 pm »

Hi Madkatz1

Have a look at the information page link under the downloads to see how we have changed the cache indexing system to try to make sure this doesnt happen again..
https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/patch_information.html

Happy WinMxing

Author Topic: connection to WinMX (Read 4728 times)

SILVER SURFER

Scott

DanceDance

Mishii

Mishi

Mishi

madkatz1

madkatz1