Shakespeer File Lis Issues

Hi,

I've been having some problems connecting to a friend's dc hub via shakespeer (and direct connect for mac). The issue seems to be that when I try to browse other users' files, their name doesn't appear in the "file list" tab, and in my downloads, i find that their file lists haven't downloaded (the file is 0B in size). However, I can browse my own shared folder in Shakespeer with no problem.

Could this be a firewall issue even though I have it turned off, or perhaps a host-side problem?

thanks alot.