Are qBittorrent settings different in Ubuntu & Kubuntu?

[babloo75]

I have installed Kubuntu 11.04 on a desktop computer which initially had Ubuntu 11.04.
All was fine earlier that the 'connection status' icon was green and speeds were good.
Now with Kubuntu and same settings (port opened), the icon remains yellow and speeds are low. The tool tip window states that "No direct connections. This may indicate network configuration problems"
Can you please help me.

[ankspo71]

Hi,
Do you have your UFW firewall and router firewall opened on port 6881? If either of these is not opened, then you will see a yellow icon in qBittorrent like you describe.

To check which ports are opened in UFW, you can use this command in your terminal:

sudo ufw status

Your results should look like this:

james@Kubuntu:~$ sudo ufw status
[sudo] password for james:
Status: active

To Action From
-- ------ ----
6881/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
6881/udp ALLOW Anywhere
6881/tcp ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
6881/udp ALLOW Anywhere (v6)

Or you can install "gufw" to configure the firewall graphically.


Additional info on UFW is here.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
Additional info on port forwarding (for routers)
http://portforward.com/


PS. The qBittorrent settings are probably the same in Kubuntu and Ubuntu.

[ankspo71]

Sorry about the duplicate reply.

[babloo75]

It says:

babloo@babloo-OptiPlex-330:~$ sudo ufw status
[sudo] password for babloo:
Status: inactive
babloo@babloo-OptiPlex-330:~$

[babloo75]

I installed gufw, as advised earlier.
And opened the ufw ports as well.
Here is the output:
babloo@babloo-OptiPlex-330:~$ sudo ufw status
[sudo] password for babloo:
Status: active

To Action From
-- ------ ----
6881/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
6881/udp ALLOW Anywhere
xxxxx ALLOW Anywhere
xxxxx ALLOW Anywhere

babloo@babloo-OptiPlex-330:~$

(xxxxx are the two ports, I have opened in my router)

The icon is still yellow. Please help