Having trouble connecting to shared drive

[Shanny]

We are trying to connect to the hard drive on another mac in our office. We go to Network > My Network > and we can see the hard drive listed there for the one we want to connect to. It tries to connect w/ msg AFP Connection Status Looking up "machine name" and it never connects. Personal file sharing is on for the machine. Any ideas of what we can try to connect? Out of the 4 MACs here - we just cannot connect to this one. Thank you

 

[satcomer]

Does your or the machine (or the router) have firewall on?

 

[Shanny]

Firewall

I think we turned the firewall off on all the machines. I will double check. Thank you.

 

[realz]

What kind of drive is it?
Is it a NAS or a drive attached to a Mac on network?
Also, do you have authentication turned on that drive?

 

[satcomer]

I forgot to post the Apple document (that everyone with a firewall should bookmark) "Well known" TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products.

 

[Shanny]

Turning the firewall off - worked

Wow - I thought I had turned the firewall off on that machine and turns out I didn't! Turning it off worked. I am able to connect to that machine now. Thank you for reminding me to check it again. Easy fix - thanks a bunch!
Shanny