>>On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 07:16 AM, Erik Price wrote:
>>>On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 04:22 AM, Neal A. Crocker wrote:
>>>>I took my IBook and my TiBook to the Apple Store, and after an
>>>>hour of fiddling and various tests, the "Genius" at the Genius
>>>>Bar concluded somewhat tentatively that my authentication problem
>>>>had something to do with all the extra users ("News Server",
>>>>"MySQLDatabase Server", etc.) installed by some fink package (I
>>>>forget which one) which is installed on both my computers.
>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>>By the way, I'm not really confident in his conclusion, but I
>>>>thought I'd post to this list in case other fink users have had
>>>>this problem.
>
>
>Agreed, this is sketchy.
>
>There is currently a tip on macosxhints.com regarding firewalls vs.
>connect to server. Do you have any firewall sw installed?
In an earlier reply to this, I mentioned that Mac OS X seems to have
a builtin firewall, ipfw. Well, I checked it out. It can't be the
problem, since it seems to be wide open:
[localhost:~] ncrocker% sudo ipfw list
Password:
65535 allow ip from any to any
Neal.
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