Firewall problem

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aaaeth

macrumors newbie

Original poster

Mar 7, 2003

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Canada

• Oct 27, 2003

• #1

After installing Panther, I went to the sharing window to decide what ports to allow. The message given to me is as follows: Other firewall software is running on your computer. To change the Apple firewall settings, turn off the other firewall sofware.

Does anybody have any idea how I go about doing that???

 

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josephx

macrumors newbie

Oct 24, 2003

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New York, NY

• Oct 27, 2003

• #2

I'm assuming you're running Norton Internet Security or the like? I just checked my "Sharing" preference pane and found the same message when I clicked the "Firewall" tab. If you are running NIS you need to make your port changes in NIS.

-joe.

 

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aaaeth

macrumors newbie

Original poster

Mar 7, 2003

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Canada

• Oct 27, 2003

• #3

The only program I have similar to the Norton is Virex 7.2. Ive shut it down, short of trashing it... I still get the same message. What am I doing wrong.

Thanks

 

yellow

Moderator emeritus

Oct 21, 2003

16,018

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Portland, OR

• Oct 27, 2003

• #4

2 solutions:

1) Hit the Terminal, type: sudo ipfw flush
Enter your admin password when prompted. Go to your precious GUI and see if you can control it now.

If that fails:

2) Delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist and reboot.

 

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KCK

macrumors regular

Jul 31, 2003

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Oakland, CA

• Oct 27, 2003

• #5

Originally posted by yellow
2 solutions:

1) Hit the Terminal, type: sudo ipfw flush
Enter your admin password when prompted. Go to your precious GUI and see if you can control it now.

If that fails:

2) Delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist and reboot.

Click to expand...

I had the same problem after my Panther install. Option #2 above was the solution to my problem.

 

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aaaeth

macrumors newbie

Original poster

Mar 7, 2003

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Canada

• Oct 28, 2003

• #6

I used option 2 and it worked perfectly.

Thank you....

 

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jeanne

macrumors newbie

Mar 29, 2005

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• Mar 29, 2005

• #7

still no luck

Hi,
I tried both of the below:

1) Hit the Terminal, type: sudo ipfw flush
Enter your admin password when prompted. Go to your precious GUI and see if you can control it now.

If that fails:

2) Delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist and reboot.

But I still get the; 'Other firewall software is running on your computer' message in system pref. I had brickhouse installed but have deleted it from the system

Help please.