Making sure that I'm not sharing files...

[Kidman13]

We use a local network in my building which is connected to the internet. I therefor often see people's shared files pop up in iTunes or now (in Leopard), I even see them in finder (and a lot of them are wide open, meaning you just click and your connected).

Now how can I make sure, that I am not sharing any files. I don't even want my Mac to pop up on their finder.

I have "File Sharing" turned off in the "Sharing" folder in System Preferences. Will that also make sure that my Mac doesn't pop up into finder?

Thanks in advance!

 

[swiftaw]

System Prefs-> Security -> Firewall -> Advanced -> Enable Stealth Mode

 

[EricNau]

That will do it.

You can also choose for the firewall to "block all incoming traffic" and enable stealth mode in the advanced menu.

If you don't want to share your music or photos, make sure sharing is disabled in both iTunes and iPhoto.

 

[Kidman13]

Thanks guys.

 

[SawTooth500]

System Prefs-> Security -> Firewall -> Advanced -> Enable Stealth Mode

How did you get to this point? Mine just gives me the choice of "Set Master Password" and "Turn on FileVault"

 

[xUKHCx]

Are you on Leopard or Tiger, the instructions were for Leopard.

 

[SawTooth500]

Running Leopard on my Sawtooth.
Runs faster than tiger for most things, others though ( like deleting a 3.2 gig previous system file, took all night for some reason. Nothing else delets that slow. empying the trash is faster, usually.)

G4 AGP with Ati RagePro128 card and 768 megs of memory. And build 9A581 of 10.5.

 

[xUKHCx]

Well then it should be in the same place.

From your description of where you got to it seems you missed the "Firewall Tab"

 

[SawTooth500]

Do forgiveme, Took my dumb pill this morning... I was looking under the wrong tab.