File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
I have a MacBook Pro (MBP) and a MacBook (MB) both running latest OS. With File Sharing turned on for each machine, the MBP can connect to the MB, but the MB won't connect to the MBP. From the MB, I can see the MBP listed under Shared Devices. If I click on the MPB icon, the main windows says Connecting But it never connects. After a couple of minutes it says Connection Failed. If I click on the Connect As.. button, it just goes through the Connecting... process again. Any suggestions as to what may be the problem, or how to fix it? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
On 31/10/08 5:59 PM, Steven Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a MacBook Pro (MBP) and a MacBook (MB) both running latest OS. With File Sharing turned on for each machine, the MBP can connect to the MB, but the MB won't connect to the MBP. From the MB, I can see the MBP listed under Shared Devices. If I click on the MPB icon, the main windows says Connecting But it never connects. After a couple of minutes it says Connection Failed. If I click on the Connect As.. button, it just goes through the Connecting... process again. Any suggestions as to what may be the problem, or how to fix it? Cheers, Steven Hi Steven A quick google search using the terms Network Sharing Connection Failed will give you quite a few results. Some of it suggestions if you migrated data from a backup or time machine backup from another computer, then some of the network files can be wrong. Some people corrected by doing an Archive and Install whereas another article http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7032205 which then points to the Apple Support site http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1736 suggestions removing a file and letting it Reset it. Try that and see how you go. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Hi Steven You could also try the following:- Resetting the PRAM (Restart, holding down Apple-Option-P-R keys until you hear the start up chimes a couple of times.) As PRAM also holds some network things I do believe. Repair permissions. Check network name/sharing settings. Check if any information in keychain (Applications/Utilities/KeyChain Access) is relating to network sharing of the other laptop, incase that's come over and is looking for the wrong information. If it is, you could delete them and let it connect again. I did have a clients machine that after a Migrate would not share to their other computers as well. After trying various fixes, suggestions and hours of googling for thousands of answers,...I just did an Archive and Install of the Operating System again (keeping all their data). After that it all worked perfectly. So if none of the above work, and you don't get any other answers,..that may be worth a try. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 31/10/08 6:36 PM, Steven Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Daniel. Had a read of those sites. The problem does sound similar to mine, but I couldn't follow the fixes proposed. The solution makes reference to deletion of a URLMount (from old Mac). I do have a URLMount folder on both MBP and MB, but not a URLMount (from old Mac) on either. I did however back up the data on the MB from Time Machine, and then once I got my MBP back from repair, I transferred the user (me) from the MB to the MBP using Target Disk mode. So it must have something to do with the problem it seems. By the way, when I use the Connect As.. function, eventually I get this error message... Connection failed. The server may not exist or is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again. Both MB and MBP are accessing the network just fine, and as mentioned earlier, the MBP can access the MB. Cheers, Steven On 31/10/2008, at 1:18 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 31/10/08 5:59 PM, Steven Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a MacBook Pro (MBP) and a MacBook (MB) both running latest OS. With File Sharing turned on for each machine, the MBP can connect to the MB, but the MB won't connect to the MBP. From the MB, I can see the MBP listed under Shared Devices. If I click on the MPB icon, the main windows says Connecting But it never connects. After a couple of minutes it says Connection Failed. If I click on the Connect As.. button, it just goes through the Connecting... process again. Any suggestions as to what may be the problem, or how to fix it? Cheers, Steven Hi Steven A quick google search using the terms Network Sharing Connection Failed will give you quite a few results. Some of it suggestions if you migrated data from a backup or time machine backup from another computer, then some of the network files can be wrong. Some people corrected by doing an Archive and Install whereas another article http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7032205 which then points to the Apple Support site http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1736 suggestions removing a file and letting it Reset it. Try that and see how you go. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Thanks Daniel. Had a read of those sites. The problem does sound similar to mine, but I couldn't follow the fixes proposed. The solution makes reference to deletion of a URLMount (from old Mac). I do have a URLMount folder on both MBP and MB, but not a URLMount (from old Mac) on either. I did however back up the data on the MB from Time Machine, and then once I got my MBP back from repair, I transferred the user (me) from the MB to the MBP using Target Disk mode. So it must have something to do with the problem it seems. By the way, when I use the Connect As.. function, eventually I get this error message... Connection failed. The server may not exist or is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again. Both MB and MBP are accessing the network just fine, and as mentioned earlier, the MBP can access the MB. Cheers, Steven On 31/10/2008, at 1:18 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 31/10/08 5:59 PM, Steven Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a MacBook Pro (MBP) and a MacBook (MB) both running latest OS. With File Sharing turned on for each machine, the MBP can connect to the MB, but the MB won't connect to the MBP. From the MB, I can see the MBP listed under Shared Devices. If I click on the MPB icon, the main windows says Connecting But it never connects. After a couple of minutes it says Connection Failed. If I click on the Connect As.. button, it just goes through the Connecting... process again. Any suggestions as to what may be the problem, or how to fix it? Cheers, Steven Hi Steven A quick google search using the terms Network Sharing Connection Failed will give you quite a few results. Some of it suggestions if you migrated data from a backup or time machine backup from another computer, then some of the network files can be wrong. Some people corrected by doing an Archive and Install whereas another article http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7032205 which then points to the Apple Support site http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1736 suggestions removing a file and letting it Reset it. Try that and see how you go. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Hi Steven, Make sure there isn't a firewall on the MBP that blocks fire sharing. Regards, James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
James, I think that's it! I was in process of following Daniel's suggestions - Repair Permissions on both machines made no difference. Seeing your message, I checked System Preferences Security Firewall. On the MBP I had this set to Allow only essential services. Changed it to Allow all incoming connections. Problem solved. Thanks fellas. Cheers, Steven On 31/10/2008, at 2:09 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Steven, Make sure there isn't a firewall on the MBP that blocks fire sharing. Regards, James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Hi Steven, Glad to hear you found a solution. I must admit, I find the Mac OSX firewall set-up much harder to understand now. It used to be that the firewall was on by default (but you could turn it off if you so desired) and then you just turned on the features that you wanted - eg file sharing, internet sharing etc. This all seemed self explanatory (ie easy). Now we have the choice to: Allow all incoming connections or Allow only essential services or Set access for specific services and applications Having checked my set-up (which I'm sure was the default) it seems to be the first option - which sounds like it means firewall off Didn't we used to deride Windows for having the firewall off by default? The trouble is, now I'm not sure how the other two options work - and the help manual didn't enlighten me! For example, what does OSX regard as Essential Services ? I note that if you tick one of the boxes in the Sharing panel and then check back at the Firewall panel, then that service has been listed, eg: File Sharing (AFP) Printer Sharing I would have thought that if you had ticked the box and the service was listed then it would now be considered essential However, Steven's experience seems to suggest that this is not the case (so what ARE essential services) Or are the services listed only enabled if you tick the third option and, if so, how do you know what you need to enable to do various things - in fact what sort of things/programs require incoming connections and how do you know? (or to put it another way, what sort of things are likely to stop working if I tick it!!) Anybody seen any GOOD articles that cover the new OSX firewall system how to set-it up (as I say, I found the onboard help pretty useless!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/10/08 7:14 PM, Steven Knowles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, I think that's it! I was in process of following Daniel's suggestions - Repair Permissions on both machines made no difference. Seeing your message, I checked System Preferences Security Firewall. On the MBP I had this set to Allow only essential services. Changed it to Allow all incoming connections. Problem solved. Thanks fellas. Cheers, Steven On 31/10/2008, at 2:09 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Steven, Make sure there isn't a firewall on the MBP that blocks fire sharing. Regards, James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Does this help :- http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Leopard_Security_Config_20080530.pdf Bob On 31/10/2008, at 8:01 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Steven, Glad to hear you found a solution. I must admit, I find the Mac OSX firewall set-up much harder to understand now. It used to be that the firewall was on by default (but you could turn it off if you so desired) and then you just turned on the features that you wanted - eg file sharing, internet sharing etc. This all seemed self explanatory (ie easy). Now we have the choice to: Allow all incoming connections or Allow only essential services or Set access for specific services and applications Having checked my set-up (which I'm sure was the default) it seems to be the first option - which sounds like it means firewall off Didn't we used to deride Windows for having the firewall off by default? The trouble is, now I'm not sure how the other two options work - and the help manual didn't enlighten me! For example, what does OSX regard as Essential Services ? I note that if you tick one of the boxes in the Sharing panel and then check back at the Firewall panel, then that service has been listed, eg: File Sharing (AFP) Printer Sharing I would have thought that if you had ticked the box and the service was listed then it would now be considered essential However, Steven's experience seems to suggest that this is not the case (so what ARE essential services) Or are the services listed only enabled if you tick the third option and, if so, how do you know what you need to enable to do various things - in fact what sort of things/programs require incoming connections and how do you know? (or to put it another way, what sort of things are likely to stop working if I tick it!!) Anybody seen any GOOD articles that cover the new OSX firewall system how to set-it up (as I say, I found the onboard help pretty useless!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/10/08 7:14 PM, Steven Knowles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, I think that's it! I was in process of following Daniel's suggestions - Repair Permissions on both machines made no difference. Seeing your message, I checked System Preferences Security Firewall. On the MBP I had this set to Allow only essential services. Changed it to Allow all incoming connections. Problem solved. Thanks fellas. Cheers, Steven On 31/10/2008, at 2:09 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Steven, Make sure there isn't a firewall on the MBP that blocks fire sharing. Regards, James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP/ Leopard Firewall
Hi Neil, To Add to Bob's reply. Allow All Incoming Connections: This default option blocks no traffic. The firewall is off. Block All Incoming Connections: An extreme option, this prevents any traffic from the outside world from initiating an Unsolicited connection to any service on your computer, but allows you to connect out as much as you want. Limit Incoming Connections to Specific Services and Applications: This option lets you pick and choose what gets in to which programs. If you have any Sharing services enabled, they appear at the top of the list below Limit Incoming Connections. If you have chosen to control incoming access for specific applications —including Apple programs like iPhoto or iTunes that add themselves to the list with your permission when you enable sharing within those programs—they appear in this list, too. When both services and applications are shown in the list, they’re separated by a line with services on top and applications on the bottom. Whenever you turn on or off any service, it is added or removed from this list to create or remove an exception to the firewall. If you launch a program that needs access from the outside world, Mac OS X prompts you for permission to allow such access; if you agree, the application is automatically added. http://www.macworld.com/article/131116/2007/12/firewall.html?lsrc=mwweek http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1810 Cheers, Ronni On 31/10/2008, at 8:30 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Does this help :- http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Leopard_Security_Config_20080530.pdf Bob On 31/10/2008, at 8:01 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Steven, Glad to hear you found a solution. I must admit, I find the Mac OSX firewall set-up much harder to understand now. It used to be that the firewall was on by default (but you could turn it off if you so desired) and then you just turned on the features that you wanted - eg file sharing, internet sharing etc. This all seemed self explanatory (ie easy). Now we have the choice to: Allow all incoming connections or Allow only essential services or Set access for specific services and applications Having checked my set-up (which I'm sure was the default) it seems to be the first option - which sounds like it means firewall off Didn't we used to deride Windows for having the firewall off by default? The trouble is, now I'm not sure how the other two options work - and the help manual didn't enlighten me! For example, what does OSX regard as Essential Services ? I note that if you tick one of the boxes in the Sharing panel and then check back at the Firewall panel, then that service has been listed, eg: File Sharing (AFP) Printer Sharing I would have thought that if you had ticked the box and the service was listed then it would now be considered essential However, Steven's experience seems to suggest that this is not the case (so what ARE essential services) Or are the services listed only enabled if you tick the third option and, if so, how do you know what you need to enable to do various things - in fact what sort of things/programs require incoming connections and how do you know? (or to put it another way, what sort of things are likely to stop working if I tick it!!) Anybody seen any GOOD articles that cover the new OSX firewall system how to set-it up (as I say, I found the onboard help pretty useless!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/10/08 7:14 PM, Steven Knowles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, I think that's it! I was in process of following Daniel's suggestions - Repair Permissions on both machines made no difference. Seeing your message, I checked System Preferences Security Firewall. On the MBP I had this set to Allow only essential services. Changed it to Allow all incoming connections. Problem solved. Thanks fellas. Cheers, Steven On 31/10/2008, at 2:09 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Steven, Make sure there isn't a firewall on the MBP that blocks fire sharing. Regards, James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Thanks Johann. I've checked this out as suggested. On both MB MBP, the Guest Accounts had Allow guests to log into this computer unchecked, and Allow guests to connect to shared folders checked. So I checked Allow guests to log into this computer on both machines. Unfortunately, problem remains, ie. MB won't access MBP. Cheers, Steven On 31/10/2008, at 1:26 PM, Johann Kienbrandt wrote: if you have a guest account, allow it to connect to shared folders, that should do the trick. johann On 31/10/2008, at 17:59 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I have a MacBook Pro (MBP) and a MacBook (MB) both running latest OS. With File Sharing turned on for each machine, the MBP can connect to the MB, but the MB won't connect to the MBP. From the MB, I can see the MBP listed under Shared Devices. If I click on the MPB icon, the main windows says Connecting But it never connects. After a couple of minutes it says Connection Failed. If I click on the Connect As.. button, it just goes through the Connecting... process again. Any suggestions as to what may be the problem, or how to fix it? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
if you have a guest account, allow it to connect to shared folders, that should do the trick. johann On 31/10/2008, at 17:59 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I have a MacBook Pro (MBP) and a MacBook (MB) both running latest OS. With File Sharing turned on for each machine, the MBP can connect to the MB, but the MB won't connect to the MBP. From the MB, I can see the MBP listed under Shared Devices. If I click on the MPB icon, the main windows says Connecting But it never connects. After a couple of minutes it says Connection Failed. If I click on the Connect As.. button, it just goes through the Connecting... process again. Any suggestions as to what may be the problem, or how to fix it? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Data-Power Corp Pty Ltd Johann Kienbrandt IT Consultant Phone: 08 93061268 Mobile: 0417 172 559 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.datapower.net.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Hi Steven, Make sure there isn't a firewall on the MBP that blocks fire sharing. oh so that my problems ( new macbook) thanks -- gary dorn north perth -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Neil, A little more on Leopard Firewall FYI. On 31/10/2008, at 8:01 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Now we have the choice to: Allow all incoming connections or Allow only essential services or Set access for specific services and applications Having checked my set-up (which I'm sure was the default) it seems to be the first option - which sounds like it means firewall off The trouble is, now I'm not sure how the other two options work - and the help manual didn't enlighten me! For example, what does OSX regard as Essential Services ? If you select the second option, Allow Only Essential Services, Leopard will block anything except a few default services such as Bonjour, network configuration (for DHCP), and IPsec (for VPN and Back to My Mac connections). Only use this option if you want to block everything else; this will prevent any file sharing, remote access, or other services activated elsewhere on your Mac. For example, this is a good setting to use when you’re on potentially hostile networks, such as the ones at hotels, and don’t want to go through the effort of manually turning sharing off. The third firewall option, Set Access For Specific Services And Applications, represents a new approach to managing traffic in Leopard. Previous versions of OS X used a technology known as stateful packet inspection. Leopard still includes this technology; however, with the application firewall enabled, it’s set to allow all traffic. The application firewall then works a level above to block traffic based on the target application (socket)—not the port. Below the application-firewall option, you’ll see a pane that lists any running network services. These are automatically set when you startservices in the Sharing preferences pane. Below this list are programs you’ve authorised to accept or deny incoming connections. The first time you launch a program that uses networking, Leopard will ask if you want to allow or block incoming connections. That program is then added to the list. From here you can choose to allow or deny incoming connections for each individual program. For example, if you share iTunes at home, you can change the setting and manually block anyone from connecting when you’re on a public network. (Keep in mind that the application firewall doesn’t block any outgoing connections; a malicious program or careless user could still connect to hostile services and be compromised.) Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Hi Steven Good to hear you have resolved this issue. Just thought I'd remind you, if you haven't already done it, to un-check guest access again as this is a 'potential' security risk. Have fun Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File sharing on Macs - MB won't connect to MBP
Wow! Thanks Ronni Bob for all that info. At first glance, it appears that option 3 is the one to go for to have a secure but flexible setup. I also like Ronni's suggestion of switching to the second option when on the road with the laptop - rather than think about all the individual things to turn on off. I now need to go and read all the linked info provided to get my head around the best way to set up option 2! I think I get the general principles - but I'm not sure I understand sockets and ports and the distinctions between what uses one or the other - ah well, always something new to learn! After reading it all I may even understand enough to think about configuring the firewall on the ADSL router! - I did try once but things stopped working so I switched it off and relied on the OSX firewall - which is why I got worried when I realised everything had changed with the Leopard update! Anyway, thanks again cheers. Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/10/08 10:22 PM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil, A little more on Leopard Firewall FYI. On 31/10/2008, at 8:01 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Now we have the choice to: Allow all incoming connections or Allow only essential services or Set access for specific services and applications Having checked my set-up (which I'm sure was the default) it seems to be the first option - which sounds like it means firewall off The trouble is, now I'm not sure how the other two options work - and the help manual didn't enlighten me! For example, what does OSX regard as Essential Services ? If you select the second option, Allow Only Essential Services, Leopard will block anything except a few default services such as Bonjour, network configuration (for DHCP), and IPsec (for VPN and Back to My Mac connections). Only use this option if you want to block everything else; this will prevent any file sharing, remote access, or other services activated elsewhere on your Mac. For example, this is a good setting to use when you¹re on potentially hostile networks, such as the ones at hotels, and don¹t want to go through the effort of manually turning sharing off. The third firewall option, Set Access For Specific Services And Applications, represents a new approach to managing traffic in Leopard. Previous versions of OS X used a technology known as stateful packet inspection. Leopard still includes this technology; however, with the application firewall enabled, it¹s set to allow all traffic. The application firewall then works a level above to block traffic based on the target application (socket)not the port. Below the application-firewall option, you¹ll see a pane that lists any running network services. These are automatically set when you startservices in the Sharing preferences pane. Below this list are programs you¹ve authorised to accept or deny incoming connections. The first time you launch a program that uses networking, Leopard will ask if you want to allow or block incoming connections. That program is then added to the list. From here you can choose to allow or deny incoming connections for each individual program. For example, if you share iTunes at home, you can change the setting and manually block anyone from connecting when you¹re on a public network. (Keep in mind that the application firewall doesn¹t block any outgoing connections; a malicious program or careless user could still connect to hostile services and be compromised.) Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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