os x file sharing... connection failed!

[bienwold]

Hello all,
I'm having a wee bit of a problem using file sharing.

I have three mac's (2 ibooks A+B ppc, & 1 mini intel) all running leopard.

I can connect the mini to ibook A, no problem and vice versa.
However, ibook B, will not connect to the mini, but i can connect the mini to ibook B.

So, basically i can not connect ibook B, to the mini.. through the process of elimination, it would seem the problem is with the ibook B, since ibook A has no problems.

On ibook B, the mini shows up in the finder, but when i try to connect, it says 'connection failed'.

I also tried cmd+k, but it says 'The text you entered does not appear to be a recognized URL format'.

Console has the following error messages every time i try to connect... '/system/library/coreservices/finder.app/contents/macos/finder 249:sharepointbroswer::handleopencallback returned 45'

This is also a fresh install of leopard, as i thought a fresh install would solve the problem... not.

Any help greatly appreciated.
bien.

[mojobaer]

I have the exact same problem.

any ideas?

[Satcomer]

The problem is the buggy included Firewall in Leopard. Try the sharing without the OS X Firewall to see if that works. Also bookmark the Apple document "Well Known" TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products.