SlingShot and your Mac Firewall

A number of the support questions we're getting have to do with how SlingShot interacts with the Mac OS X firewall.

In order for Subscribers to connect over the network to the Publisher, they have to be able to get through the firewall. This means if you've got your firewall enabled (there's some kind of 'shields up' joke in there somewhere), you'll need to configure it on the Publisher to allow connections to SlingShot.

We've got detailed instructions (only 3 steps!) on our Support Page (under 'Networking Questions' click on 'What about Mac OS X's firewall?').

(If you're the kind of Mac user who eats firewall rules for breakfast, open TCP port 51114 for inbound connections on the Publisher machine and you should be all set).