On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 07:53:03AM +0100, Simon Porter wrote: > My suggestion, > > Why not have a setup wizard that runs in the browser on first run. This > is how nearly all php programs setup themselves such osCommerce and > Kayako heldesk. It would be great to be able to guide users through some > of the more difficult parts of installation such as port forwarding. > > IMO port forwarding is one of the most difficult things to setup. Most > users don't even know what it is let alone how to set it up. When I > first tried out freenet I gave up and left it for a month before trying > again. It was only after much bugging people on the IRC chat and reading > through my huge 200 page manual for my ADSL router that I found out.
Yes, it's a big problem. And we have no way to help them, which makes it worse. > > Here in the UK nearly everyone I know uses an ADSL router to connect to > the Internet. My experience with friends has been that installing the > JVM is the easy part. It's port forwarding that is the road block. If I > even mention it usually people just scratch their head. Well, that's their problem. Unless you want to maintain a substantial amount of platform specific code to try to find and reconfigure every known DSL router - and hope it doesn't have any authentication system, because the user will have forgotten or lost any login details. > > I think if freenet is to become easy to use then this is one of the > biggest things to address rather than more eye candy for the fproxy. > > Simon Well volunteered! Seriously, it's way outside my field of expertise, it's just possible that there's some free code somewhere that does it, somebody should google for it. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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