Firewall stops Internet sharing working

[bookem]

I share my internet connection over Airport to my iBook and a PC laptop. If I have the OSX Firewall on on the computer with the internet connection, they can still connect to each other through file sharing, remote desktop, and virtually everything else, but internet sharing no longer works. Any ideas?

 

[Natobasso]

I share my internet connection over Airport to my iBook and a PC laptop. If I have the OSX Firewall on on the computer with the internet connection, they can still connect to each other through file sharing, remote desktop, and virtually everything else, but internet sharing no longer works. Any ideas?

You may have to turn on your internet sharing in the SHARING/INTERNET dialoge window of the Mac OS X system prefs.

There could be more to this, but it's just a start. You can set other firewall/FTP protocols in this window as well.

 

[gsahli]

This is your problem:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107653

 

[Natobasso]

This is your problem:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107653

I wonder if a fix is in the works?

 

[octane]

I wonder if a fix is in the works?

Question, do you get some kind of warning about another firewall running when you click on the Firewall tab in the Sharing pane in System Preferences?

 

[bookem]

Question, do you get some kind of warning about another firewall running when you click on the Firewall tab in the Sharing pane in System Preferences?

No.