Thanks again Stief,
If its no problem then I'll leave it at that....
The whole firewall question is a bit strange as I am the Admin user, ie its my laptop, used at home, no work/office network arrangement etc... wierd.

As you seem to be somewhat of an expert on this I wonder if I could ask you for some general advice...
I understand that this a Limewire forum, so the question might seem a little odd... however...
Is Limewire the 'best' P2P program to use... ie most users, most content etc. for Mac?

Thanks

Amedeo

Quick answer: yes, it's the best for OS X.

--The gnutella network is big and is growing. I'm watching for when it hits 2 million online users. If you go to http://www.limewire.com/english/content/uastats.shtml, you can see the clients that are connected. Of the ones that can be run on OS X, LW is the leader. New vendors are often just LW "under the hood." They take LW's opensource code and tweak it, but then they can't keep up with LW's 5 years of development experience. Lot's more to say here, but no more time :)

btw--did you try clicking the Lock icon on your OS X Sharing Preferences to get at the Firewall settings?

Well thats just the problem....
I cant access the sharin preferences at all!
When I hover the mouse over the button in System Preferences, I get the message:
'Your access to this preference has been restricted'

I am quite stumped with that, like I said I am the Admin user here, so I dont really see why I should be restricted there...???

I have posted the query on the apple forums but i'm still waiting for a reply....

Thanks

My guess is that permissions might need repairing: go to the Applications folder>Utilities>Disk Utility and run a repair permissions, then try again.

Thanks murasame,
Thats the advice I got from the Apple forums....
tried it but to no effect.

Any other suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated.

Amedeo

Did they suggest you try a "safe boot" to run a file system ckeck/fix? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393

more links at http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=24092

Yep, did that as well also to no effect....

totally stumped.....

Heeelp

Amedeo

Maybe something needs fixing by apps such as Disk Warrior or something. (yes, I'm pretty specific as you can see...)
You could also try to restore some apps by poping in the CD-ROM the OS X CD

I forgot: do you have multiple accounts on your comp or not?

Thanks murasame
no, no multiple accounts, just me.