>>On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 07:16 AM, Erik Price wrote:
>>>On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 04:22 AM, Neal A. Crocker wrote:
>>>>I took my IBook and my TiBook to the Apple Store, and after an
>>>>hour of fiddling and various tests, the "Genius" at the Genius
>>>>Bar concluded somewhat tentatively that my authentication problem
>>>>had something to do with all the extra users ("News Server",
>>>>"MySQLDatabase Server", etc.) installed by some fink package (I
>>>>forget which one) which is installed on both my computers.
>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>>By the way, I'm not really confident in his conclusion, but I
>>>>thought I'd post to this list in case other fink users have had
>>>>this problem.
>
>
>Agreed, this is sketchy.
>
>There is currently a tip on macosxhints.com regarding firewalls vs.
>connect to server. Do you have any firewall sw installed?
I haven't installed any firewall, but my impression is that Mac OS X
has a builtin firewall:
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[localhost:~] ncrocker% which ipfw
/sbin/ipfw
[localhost:~] ncrocker% ps -ax | grep ipfw
6504 std R+ 0:00.00 grep ipfw
[localhost:~] ncrocker% man ipfw
/usr/bin/man: Formatting manual page...
IPFW(8) System Manager's Manual IPFW(8)
NAME
ipfw - controlling utility for IP firewall
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>Anyway, not fink related, try http://forums.macnn.com/ :)
>
>
Thanks. I'll check that out. I've gone there in the past when I've
had other problems and it has proved useful, but I'd forgotten about
it.
Neal.
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