File Sharing works only with Firewall inactive

I used to share files with an Xp Pc with no problem on my wifi network. When I upgraded to SL even though I see the pc in finder and the file sharing option is active I can access to my pc only if i stop the firewall.
Bye

Are you behind a router with a good firewall? If yes, there is no reason to use the Sno firewall. I only use it when on a public network--where I won't be doing any file sharing anyway.

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When you try the connection, are you using an alias on the iBook or using the connect to Server command? If you're using an alias, try the connect route and browse the network.
Also, are both systems in the same Windows "Workgroup". "Directory Access" in the Utilities folder is the Mac app that allows you to configure a Workgroup setting for Windows related communications.

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TCP works only with IP right? Then if I want to communicate with a devise that does not have an IP (my television) I cannot use TCP right?
Regards,
Sim085

Why would I post without being 100% correct:
Just trying to point out at a high level that if you use something else to move the TCP then you'll eventually have to implement the functionality that IP gives you.
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A network diagram that uses TCP and NO IP:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/4058/ftp:zSzzSzpaul.rutgers.eduzSzpubzSzbadrizSzitcp-tr314.pdf/bakre95itcp.pdf#page=5
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For the author:
I'd design your chat program with two basic interfaces in mind. There will be guaranteed delivery and best effort. TCP gives you a grantee that either the packet gets to the receiving station or the sender gets an error. That's great until you want to talk Bluetooth.
Bluetooth, IR, and Serial comms are all basically the same in the WinTel world. You talk to them over a COMM port. Here you have no guarantee of delivery. Thus in the old days of downloading you had to use a protocol like ZModem to transmit files and make sure you got them all.
You'll need to implement you own guarantee of delivery for these. Basically look into what TCP provides and implement something similar with Java. Checksum, sequence number, and acks.
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How to make File-Sharing work with Firewall?

Hello everybody,
I try to connect two laptops via FileSharing, running 10.5.5. Both have the following settings:
- Sharing: File-Sharing (AFP) on
- Firewall:
+ Only allow essential services (wording might differ, I translated it)
+ File-Sharing (AFP) appears in the text area below
I can see the other laptop in the Finder sidebar, but connecting fails, the firewall telling me that the connecting attempt was refused without giving any hint why. This is happens vice versa as well.
Allowing all incoming connections will solve the problem, but since it introduces other difficulties, this is not an option in my setting.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Jim

Hi Jim,
I'm glad it worked for you as well. As for being asked to play gate keeper to allow incoming connections, I would note which applications request this. You can add the application to the application firewall list ( third option) by dragging it into the box.
There, you can choose either allow incoming or block incoming.
Perhaps by not having a particular application sitting in there causes you to be asked all the time.
You will have to decide what you want in there.
In that window there is file sharing and printer sharing placed in there, and I have added two items underneath, Safari and RealPlayer, both set to allow incoming. I had previously set them to block incoming, but saw no difference in their operation, so I think it is more important to have the application sitting in there, than the choice of allow or block.
Again it may be that this new Application Firewall, once introduced to these applications, may stop requesting your assistance, regarding the allow incoming query.
regards roam

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Hi folks, I just switched over to Mac! So far so good with my new macbook. I have two identical gateway xp machines. Strange thing is, the macbook connects perfectly to one of the gateways for file and print sharing, but cannot connect to the other. In finder the name of the computer appears under "shared", but when I click on it, after attempting to connect, it says "connection" failed. For the xp machine in question, I have run the home networking "wizard" and have used trouble shooter. The computer has a unique name on the network, and the directories have been set for sharing. I've tried removing the firewall--though the firewall is instructed to permit networking. So, what can I do? Thanks everybody.

Interesting.
On the troublesome XP box, set the permissions for your shares are set that "everyone" can read the share. (No need to give write access).
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HI,
On the whole I am finding it very stable. (it presents the same quirks in the same manner each time)
It has some things that are more Feature requests than "Bugs" per se about the way it works that I would like to change.
It can also be difficult to tell exactly what is going on whenyou are hearing about it third hand.
Sounds like you have a plan.
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