Sharing /burn to disc is greyed out

Hey all, can't seem to figure this out . Any help would be great.
thanks, Jim.

songz54 wrote:
Sharing /burn to disc is greyed out
the most common reason is that a blank disc has not been inserted yet

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When I right click on a file in finder in "All My Files" Burn to Disc is greyed out. When I locate the same file in it folder and not in "All My Files" the Burn to Disc is there. Surely this cant be right and isnt very user friendly !

CD-RWs tend to have a lot of problems when used for audio CDs. I suggest you try the burn again using a CD-R.

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I am running 10.4.11. In System Preferences, under Sharing, the Firewall tab is greyed out, suggesting my firewall is not running or has been tampered with.
So I did some poking:
brendan% sudo ipfw show
02000 844220 100107534 allow ip from any to any via lo*
02010 0 0 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any in
02020 0 0 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 in
02030 0 0 deny ip from 224.0.0.0/3 to any in
02040 0 0 deny tcp from any to 224.0.0.0/3 in
02050 388115 29754604 allow tcp from any to any out
02060 690200 900600320 allow tcp from any to any established
02065 0 0 allow tcp from any to any frag
02070 0 0 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 123 in
02080 0 0 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 135 in
02090 0 0 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 8135-8137 in
02100 0 0 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 21 in
02110 0 0 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 500 in
12190 0 0 deny log tcp from any to any
20000 0 0 deny log icmp from any to me in icmptypes 8
65535 92033 23684897 allow ip from any to any
Does this look suspicious? I also tried:
brendan% /usr/libexec/FirewallTool
Firewall Tool: Error, sysctlbyname(net.inet.tcp.blackhole): 1
Firewall Tool: Error, sysctlbyname(net.inet.tcp.loginvain): 1
Firewall Tool: Error, sysctlbyname(net.inet.udp.blackhole): 1
Firewall Tool: Error, sysctlbyname(net.inet.udp.loginvain): 1
Firewall Tool: Error, sysctlbyname returned: -1
Firewall Tool: Error opening socket
Firewall Tool: Error 1, Error setting up V4 Firewall!
Firewall Tool: Error opening socket for V6!
Firewall Tool: Error 1, Error setting up V6 Firewall!
Should I be concerned? Am I being paranoid?
If I want to reset and restart my Firewall, how do I do that, if the tab is greyed out in System Preferences?
If I want to load a backup copy of my firewall configuration, what file do I need to copy from my backup disk? There is no /etc/firewall.conf on my system.
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As I recall, if you do any sort ipfw stuff in command line under Tiger, that that made Sharing > Firewall gray out. Try doing a sudo ipfw flush then see if that lets you reconfigure from Sys Prefs.
This article discusses Tiger's default firewall settings with web sharing turned on. That will give you a start in seeing what you should have on. This article may help a little, too, if you are running services or have certain softwares doing different things (gaming, etc.)
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I know that itunes is s'posed to be a one way thing but I don't see why.
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If one of you clever chaps knows how please let me know too.
Many thanks, Chrisie.

Hi there, I had a look but there are no playlists saved there, as the playlists are not saved in the itunes library this may be the reason.
Anyway I don't want to reinstall at the mo. I want to save them so I dont lose them again.
I was hoping if I could get them into a folder or on a disc that I could easily upload them again. I mean, why is there a greyed out area in files?
Hope someone can help.
thanks anyway, Chrisie.

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Any updates on this thread? The same thing is happening to me and I'm not sure what to do. I've reinstalled, created new playlists, etc. all to no avail. I was able to burn CD's fine a few weeks back and now all of a sudden I don't have the burn disc button and the option is greyed out in the File menu.
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Can anyone advise if it's possible to recall a message sent from a shared mailbox? The user has full access permissions to the shared mailbox but the 'recall this message' option is greyed out.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us
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Thanks! I should have mentioned that I'd already tried that. Several times. There are no other computers with the same name as mine on either my home or office network.
I can click on the "Edit" button and change the name to "David.local" or whatever, and it'll stay that way—but it doesn't show up on the LAN. When I look for the computer over the network—either using Bonjour or the Apple-K command in the Finder—it shows up with its old name. If I try to connect with "David.local" (or whatever), I get an error saying the server can't be found.
Since posting, I've also tried logging in as the root user and changing it there. No dice.
I had to replace the hard drive (the reformatting that caused me to clone the disk in the first place turned out not to solve the problem, which was that the hard drive was failing); for a week I was using an external drive clone as the startup disk for my iMac. It let me change the name there just as it should have. No more +David's iBook_1+. Woohoo!
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This is my office MacPro, we have a pool of Macs running graphics and also Avid software. We file share with local network through Apple File Sharing.
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