I'm running it on 4.0.7 currently and it works great except for attachments. Any time it comes across an attachment it hangs. Is anyone else seeing this?

I don't know what happened. This has been working great for a long time. But yesterday I started getting SQL error when gateway.php runs.

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.0:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT filename,attachmentid
FROM attachment
WHERE postid= 2424829;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'postid' in 'where clause'

Any ideas?

omg, I've been looking for something like this for almost half a decade! I can't believe I didn't see this before. I just hope it works on v3.8.x.

I'm running this nntp sync and find myself having to choose between turning on thumbnails in vBulletin, or sync'g attachments.

I get the impression I'm not the only one.

Has anyone found a solution?

I'm running vBulletin 3.8.6.

Is there a free server I can use to test this? I have tried 4 or 5 now and none are working.

Thanks

Since no one has come back with a free server suggestion, I might suggest a 14-day free trial with Giganews.com.

-- Rik

ps: used them for years!

After upgrading from vb 4.1.6 to 4.1.7, I got the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function build_post_index() in /home/www/html/subs/forums/includes/functions_nntp.php on line 623

What I found is that in the forum's /include directory there is a file named functions_databuild.php that holds the build_post_index function. I see in the 4.1.6 code that the build_post_index function has all the code between the initiation of the function and the end of the function commented out. In 4.1.7, the function has been totally removed from the functions_databuild.php file.

Since the mod worked fine with vb 4.1.6, this would indicate that the function wasn't being utilized by this mod at all. So I commented out the call to the build_post_index function from within functions_nntp.php. And, as far as I can tell, that gets the mod back up and running again with vb 4.1.7.

Anyone got this still working? I get a connection timeout everytime I try to run it any help appreciated

It is working for me, but with limitations. Don't expect it to be perfect :-). The connection timeout sounds like a firewall issue.

Your vBulletin server needs to talk to your news server via port 119. You should be able to test this from your vBulletin server using a command shell window and:

telnet <news server) 119

I'm responding since most of us running this add-on depend on it a great deal and yet posts to this thread are far too often unanswered. I'll answer what I can. I use and depend on this add-on every day to keep my vBulletin forums and DNEWS server in "sync".