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Firewall KEEPS asking to allow same application
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I get this too, quite annoying.
When your using a MBP over wireless to a ApE using WPA2 Personal, if you turn OS X firewall off, can anyone access your MBP wirelessly at all?
I only have it on to stop people accessing my MBP wirelessly (not through my router)
Can I turn it off?
When your using a MBP over wireless to a ApE using WPA2 Personal, if you turn OS X firewall off, can anyone access your MBP wirelessly at all?
I only have it on to stop people accessing my MBP wirelessly (not through my router)
Can I turn it off?
For me Adium is the culprit and then only one of the services (Yahoo I think, but I could be wrong). It might be that iTunes is "an asker" as well, but I don't let iTunes go out onto the net anyway as I am not interested in album art or the iTunes store.
To me it is a bit annoying, but I simply click the Okay button. It would be nice if it stopped though.
P.S.: as it pertains to just a single service I thought that Yahoo might be using several ports that it opened at random. I can understand that a firewall would ask about different ports in different prompts.
To me it is a bit annoying, but I simply click the Okay button. It would be nice if it stopped though.
P.S.: as it pertains to just a single service I thought that Yahoo might be using several ports that it opened at random. I can understand that a firewall would ask about different ports in different prompts.
having this problem with itunes and adium, just wondering if anyone has found a fix yet; especially as i don't use an non-admin account and have to keep typing in my password...
richard.mac
macrumors 603
i heard somewhere that apps that use sparkle to automatically download and install updates have this problem. simply removing and adding them to the firewall will fix this. one exception to this ive seen is Coda which still asks me to allow incoming connections.
apfhex
macrumors 68030
That would make sense, but even if I do this I still get asked every single time I launch Transmission.
richard.mac
macrumors 603
chagla
macrumors 6502a
are you sure buddy? because it is our belief that such a horrendous annoyance can only cause in Windows vista. So, are you really really, like really reallly sure you were on a mac? you know, half eaten fruit machine?
and after you confirm, i can do some gigglling..no, googling to help you out.
richard.mac
macrumors 603
ok so i just launched Transmission and it asked me update to 1.11 which i did. after it had installed i launched it again and it asked be allow incoming connections so i clicked allow.
presuming i would have to remove and add it to the firewall again i launched it a second time and it didnt ask to allow incoming connections!? maybe the update fixed it?
presuming i would have to remove and add it to the firewall again i launched it a second time and it didnt ask to allow incoming connections!? maybe the update fixed it?
Maybe helpful?
I've been having this problem recently with Growl. I had the same problem a year or so ago and only remember that I had to go into a list of allowed programs and erase the file for the program that was repeatedly asking for network allowances. Once I did that and opened up the app and allowed it access to the network again it worked fine. The problem here is that I have no idea where that list was. It was similar to the list in System Preferences --Security -- Firewall -- Advanced but instead of an allow/deny list it was the files that remembered your options in Firewall and you could delete the file. My guess is that the file for the program you're having to repeatedly allow network connection for, Growl in my case, is messed up. Unfortunately, like I said, I have no idea where this list is located and haven't been able to find that old thread that guided me there last time.
Happy hunting.
I've been having this problem recently with Growl. I had the same problem a year or so ago and only remember that I had to go into a list of allowed programs and erase the file for the program that was repeatedly asking for network allowances. Once I did that and opened up the app and allowed it access to the network again it worked fine. The problem here is that I have no idea where that list was. It was similar to the list in System Preferences --Security -- Firewall -- Advanced but instead of an allow/deny list it was the files that remembered your options in Firewall and you could delete the file. My guess is that the file for the program you're having to repeatedly allow network connection for, Growl in my case, is messed up. Unfortunately, like I said, I have no idea where this list is located and haven't been able to find that old thread that guided me there last time.
Happy hunting.