On 7/24/2008, Steve Thackery posted this: > Thanks for these suggestions. I'll drive over to their place this weekend > and try those four steps. > > Incidentally, the reason for the slightly odd "once only" wording of the > title is that they claim that if they reboot the suspect Mac, they can > download their emails once, but not subsequently until they reboot. > > This suggests something funny with Mail, but (and I've seen this with my own > eyes) Safari is blocked as well. > > I'm not convinced they are reporting this bit correctly, although I can > definitely confirm that the symptoms described in my original email are as > described. > > Finally, how do I get to the firewall in the Mac? > > Thanks again, > > SteveT
I did it so long ago that I didn't remember, but it only took a minute or two (and a false start or two, I must admit!) to find this:
System Preferences | (Internet & Network) Sharing | Firewall
This is on my Intel iMac running OS X 10.4.
-- Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251 (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
