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iTunes music sharing and Firewalk X 2 port settings Apps
After some frustration with trying to get iTunes music sharing working between my iBook and my wife's Gateway Windows XP laptop, I discovered that Firewalk X 2 on my iBook was to blame.

I had already opened TCP port 3689 to all incoming traffic, but the Gateway still couldn't find me. Unlike Mac OS X's buiilt-in firewall, Firewalk X 2 requires the additional step of opening UDP port 5353 to incoming traffic, too. Essentially, I followed Apple's instructions for enabling iTunes music sharing on a Windows machine with a firewall. This resolved the problem and the two machines now easily share iTunes libraries.
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iTunes music sharing and Firewalk X 2 port settings
Authored by: yellow on Feb 05, '04 01:33:55PM

5353 is MulticastDNS (a.k.a., Rendezvous), so that makes sense to need open for other machines to find it.



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