8 Basic iMule Tips
- NEVER run iMule as root.
- If you are behind a firewall or router, be sure that the ports have been
opened. The default ports are 8887 (TCP) and 8886 (UDP). If
these are blocked, you will have a VERY LOW connection, or no connection
at all.
- Set your temp and shared directories in Preferences->Directories.
To recursively select a certain directory, right-click over it.
- You should NOT share
- Your temp download directory!
- Your /etc directory
- Probably not your /var, /lib, /boot, or /usr directory
- Certainly make sure that any really confidential files (password files,
private SSH keys, credit card numbers :) are *not* shared. So generally
do not share your entire home directory, although you might want to
share some files or directories in it.
- Remember that you get certain download priveledges with those clients
(iMule, eMule, etc users) to whom you upload files, in the form of reduced
queue waits.
8.1 Transfer icons
To find descriptions of the various icons found inside iMule, take a look at
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started#Icons_and_What_They_Signify