YAZSOFT SUPPORT  Tony,

As mentioned in our FAQ, and my email responses to you; this is not currently possible simply because the SL Firewall does not give you access to all the services that you need to let through. When you activate the firewall, they are OFF by default.

If you have a router on your network, a firewall on you Mac is a little redundant.

If you'd like to discuss this further, I welcome you to join our forums:

http://www.yazsoft.com/f/

The MacUpdate comment section is not really the best place for this type of discussion.

Johnny  
(Version 1.1)

TONYPATILLAS99  Hi Johnny,

I haven't received an email stating snow leopard firewall is not compatible with Playback. Just a link to a forum post about what ports to open which you cannot do with Snow Leopard Firewall.

It might be worth stating this in your sites FAQs under 'Is Playback compatible with Snow Leopard's Firewall?'.

Also I would also welcome the opportunity to continue this conversation on your forums but I have been waiting since the 24th October for an administrator to activate my account. For now I just get the message 'The specified username is currently inactive. If you have problems activating your account, please contact a board administrator.' I have sent a second request to activate my account but still nothing. Hence my posting on mac update for help resolving the my playback issues, which for someone who has parted money for this software is totally appropriate if I am unable to find answers elsewhere.

Apologies for my tone but I am somewhat frustrated with my experience of using Playback so far.

Regards

Tony  
(Version 1.1)

YAZSOFT SUPPORT  Tony,

Email me at info at yazsoft dot com.

Also, please make sure that none of my emails are being caught in your spam folder. In your email, also provide the username you have chosen on the forums. Ill activate your account manually.

Johnny  
(Version 1.1)

RUDHY  I've the same problem, but luckily for me I've also license for Rivet which is working just fine with SL, Firewall turned ON and even Stealth mode enabled. I don't understand why Playback can't where Rivet is doing great. For now Rivet is my choice.  
(Version 1.2)

NAVDEEP BAINS  @RUDHY I don't understand it either. I should also add that I can't reproduce the firewall issues being reported on any of my machines. There's only one way to bind a socket to a port, so in that respect, Playback and Rivet are exactly the same. There's no special technique to employ; no magic trick that I'm aware of at least.

Take a look at the Rivet forums and you'll see that Rivet users are also having problems with the Snow Leopard firewall. Both Yazsoft and Cynical Peak are being blamed for Apple's buggy code.

It's not Yazsoft's fault that the Mac OS X firewall implementation is flaky. It's not Cynical Peak's fault either. There really is absolutely nothing we can do to solve these issues on our end.

Thanks,

Navdeep Bains

Playback Developer  
(Version 1.2)

MAC-ADDICT  Hi Tony,

My problems with Playback in the end turned out to be a problem with LittleSnitch, running so silently in the background I'd forgotten all about it's use. However, unlike you I was using Leopard, maybe this solution could help solve your issues, but it would include needing LittleSnitch.

If you go to the following:

http://yazsoft.com/products/playback/faqs/

Look under the question "Is Playback compatible with Little Snitch?" here you'll see my solution as was so kindly helped and provoked by the Yazsoft staff, who I've gotta say where fantastically on the ball with their support. In the end I took their help and went a little further until I found what exactly needed to gain access to the network for Playback to function perfectly. Also I have NetBarrier running but not the built-in Firewall.

Hope this helps you out, I know it is seriously frustrating when this software doesn't work, but it really is soooo much better than Rivet it's not fair to compare them.

All the best,

Ryan.   
(Version 1.2)