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fatmark

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I've just gone wireless with my iBook but took the cheapo route via a D-Link DWL-700AP. It works great for wireless broadband access but I have a question about Rendezvous.

When I start iTunes on my iMac it detects the shared library on the iBook and displays it as a playlist. But when it trys to populate the playlist with titles, it fails after about 1 min and gives up. This works fine when the iBook is connected directly to my home network.

I seem to recall reading something along these lines (i.e. - Rendezvous needs an AirPort base station) but I'm damned if I can find it now! Apple's site (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/rendezvous/) says this, "Rendezvous works over today’s most popular standard connection technologies, including Ethernet and AirPort (802.11). And it uses the standard, ubiquitous IP networking protocol for its connections, the same protocol that runs the internet itself. Indeed, all of the technologies driving Rendezvous are open and part of the standards creation process of the IETF, as is Rendezvous itself."

Any experiences or advice re. this much appreciated.

Regards
FatMark
 
Thanks for the pointer. However, I think you missed the point that it works on a wired network so there is nothing wrong with my Mac OS X installs (I never do a custom install - too scary!). Both iMac and iBook are running the latest 10.2.8 release.

Regards
FatMark
 
Turn off the firewall on both machines in the preferences pane. Then check if it works. Another possibility is if your base station is trying to filter traffic. I don't know anything about the model you have but go into the configuration and turn off any firewall or port mapping stuff there. Now does that work?

Finally I am assuming that both of these machines are both using wireless connections in this setup. If you have one going via traditional wired ethernet that could be important too.

-Eric
 
Thanks - I'll try some of these suggestions over the weekend and report back.

Both machines are *not* wireless though. My iMac is connected via wired Ethernet.

FatMark
 
Originally posted by fatmark
[BBoth machines are *not* wireless though. My iMac is connected via wired Ethernet. [/B]
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In this case you need to make sure that none of the traffic is being filtered between the wireless and wired lan. In some cases the base station/bridge/switch thingy will isolate the different networks as being on different security levels. Something to look out for would be having your wired network configured as a DMZ or some such thing.

-Eric
 
OK, I apologise. It's all working fine now!

What I had forgotten is that since I last had this working with a wired connection, my Westell ASDL Modem/Router had died. That box had an integrated firewall - its replacement didn't. To overcome this, I turned on the OS X firewall on both my machines. Turning off the firewall allowed me to share my iTunes library on my iBook via a wireless connection.

Had a search around and found this:-
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-talk/2003-April/010478.html
Basically says that opening port 3689 allows sharing with the firewall on so I'll give this a try.

Thanks for you help.

Regards
FatMark
 
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