Thanks, Bill. I looked, and yes, the sharing was turned on. Now one more question: if I want the music on my iMac to also load andplay in my PB ( airport network), does the firewall also impede this ? On Friday, Nov 7, 2003, at 10:33 America/New_York, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 11/6/03 17:52, owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu wrote > >> Lately, everytime I open iTunes I am greeted with this: Other users >> will not be able to access your shared music because port 3689 is >> blocked by your firewall software. Please disable the firewall for >> port >> 3689 and restart iTunes. - what gives? > > You probably have iTunes sharing turned on in the iTunes preferences. > > If you really want to share your music (on a LAN), you need to go to > the > Sharing system preference pane, click the firewall tab, click New..., > click the Port Name button, scroll down to Other, and give the port an > inventive name, like "iTunes". After doing this, type 3689 into the > port > number, range or series box, and then click OK. > > If you don't want to share your music, turn the sharing off in the > iTunes > preferences, and the message will go away. > > bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
