wine users - Oct 2010 - FIREWALL, Troopmaster FTP problem on Mac using Wine

On Mac using Wine trying to download database from FTP site for Troopmaster
(Windows application) Application opens, I have upgraded program. I have fixed
internet provider opening Port for use through modem. I believe I might need to
add program to a list for firewall. On the Mac side, I can't see application
(TroopMaster.EXE) to add to Firewall in Security. On the wine side I don't
know where the list would even exist. Can someone point me in the right
direction OR possibly ran into this issue before. Thank you. Cindy J-H[/img]

ADDED INFO. I am using X-11 and Terminal. I have been able to add them through
the Mac side to the Firewall.

Hi Cindy,

On 10/4/10 10:24 PM, cdhulf wrote:
> On the Mac side, I can't see application (TroopMaster.EXE) to add to
Firewall in Security.
You have to add Wine itself to that list. Mac OS X doesn't even know or
care about Windows .exe files.

Since you're running Wine from Terminal.app, you can enter the command:

  which wine

to find out where the Wine binary lives.
> On the wine side I don't know where the list would even exist.
That's because it doesn't. Wine doesn't even have a firewall built
in.
It relies on your host system (in this case, Mac OS X) for that kind of
protection.
> I am using X-11 and Terminal. I have been able to add them through the
> Mac side to the Firewall.
Opening them up won't help... unless you were trying to connect to
X11.app remotely, which you obviously aren't. And Terminal.app doesn't
even use the Internet. It's just a GUI front-end to the UNIX command line.

So just make sure you add Wine to the firewall's list of exceptions and
you should be fine.

Chip

cdhulf <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>Sent: Oct 4, 2010 9:24 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  FIREWALL, Troopmaster FTP problem on Mac using Wine
>
>On Mac using Wine trying to download database from FTP site for Troopmaster
(Windows application) Application opens, I
>have upgraded program. I have fixed internet provider opening Port for use
through modem. I believe I might need to add
>program to a list for firewall. On the Mac side, I can't see application
(TroopMaster.EXE) to add to Firewall in Security.
>On the wine side I don't know where the list would even exist. Can
someone point me in the right direction OR possibly ran
>into this issue before. Thank you. Cindy J-H[/img]
This is not really a Wine question and Apple does have support fora for how to
configure the firewall.  However, I will state the Firewall on your Mac will not
block outgoing FTP sessions on the 'normal' ports.  So, let's assume
that something is broken with your Wine setup and you need to check the Internet
connectivity from Wine:

wine Iexplore

In the address bar put http://www.winehq.org

This should bring up the Wine HQ 'home' page.

Advise if this works.

James McKenzie

Hell0 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>Sent: Oct 7, 2010 6:06 AM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  Re: FIREWALL, Troopmaster FTP problem on Mac using Wine
>
>Try to use ProteMac NetMine [url]http://www.protemac.com/NetMine/
>[/url].It's firewall for mac.It's must be helpful to you.
>
Macs come with a built-in firewall that is part of the base Operating System. 
I, for one, am not going to add an unknown product to my Mac.  Also, this will
not fix the OPs problem.

James McKenzie