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Authored by: bluehz on Feb 19, '04 12:12:52AM

I am trying this and all I get is the "Requesting Authentication on host..." dialog, but I never get a dialog on the other machine to accept it. Is there some port that needs to be open - other than the usual Rendezvous setup?



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Use a software-only keyboard/mouse 'switchbox'
Authored by: bluehz on Feb 19, '04 12:48:42AM

Seems to need a UDP port range opened on the 2nd machine. The one you are controlling. Watching the logs I see this when trying to access via Teleport:

Feb 19 00:19:49 ibook kernel: ipfw: 52009 Deny UDP 192.168.1.10:49632 192.168.1.20:44176 in via en2

This is no problem if you are using the standard OS X Firewall, but if you have a customized firewall or use something like FirewalkX or Brickhouse you will need to open up some ports. Not sure which single port needs to be opened - I tried a range of highports and it worked. If anyone can narrow this down - that might be helpful.

After opening the ports - seems to work great!

EDIT: It appears at least for me - opening UDP port 44176 on the machine I want to control works.



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