Pocketpedia not finding collection

[otheroom]

When I click on the Sync button in Pocketpedia I get the "Synchronizing..." popup that sits there for a minute. After it disappears there are no collections listed on my iPod Touch. If I click Sync again the popup displays briefly and disappears, still with no collection listed.

Here are all the details I can think of to help trouble shooting:

I've got DVDpedia 4.3.0 running on my G5/OS 10.4.11

I've only got one collection in DVDpedia called "Barry's DVDs"

My G5 is networked into a router that my Airport Express is also connected to

My iPod Touch is successfully networked to the Airport Express

TIA

[otheroom]

After scanning through some other posts here I found the info that indicated that the Mac OS firewall was preventing the sync. After turning off the firewall I was able to sync but I would rather not leave the firewall off.

How do I determine which ports to open up in the firewall?

[Conor]

If the firewall is the Mac firewall you can grant access to DVDpedia under set access for specified applications. The port numbers are not hard coded, and the computer chooses the most convenient. You can find the port number in the same location under System Preference --> Security --> Firewall --> Advance --> Open Log.

[otheroom]

Thanks Conor, that gave me enough info to track it down.

For completeness sake, here are the details of what I ended up doing to allow the sync.

The correct system preference to use is:
System Preference --> Sharing --> Firewall --> Advance --> Open Log

After attempting a sync I looked at the log and found lines like this:

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Jul 23 09:21:01 My-Computer ipfw:  12190 Deny TCP 192.168.1.101:xxxxx 192.168.1.102:yyyyy in via en0

I then created an entry in the firewall tab to allow TCP port number yyyyy (to be replaced with the actual number seen).

[otheroom]

After rebooting I found that the port number is reassigned so granting access via port number is not a long-term option.

If the firewall is the Mac firewall you can grant access to DVDpedia under set access for specified applications.

I don't see this in any of the preferences on my system. Where exactly is this done?

[Conor]

This is what I was trying to make clear by mentioning that the computer chooses the best port. I just realized that Tiger users don't have this enhanced security feature. Instead of opening a port that all can use, Leopard has the ability to trust DVDpedia and let only DVDpedia communicate across the firewall. In the next version the port number might be static in order to let users set a specific port for those running Tiger or with hardware firewalls.

[otheroom]

Thanks.

Since I don't update my DVD library very often I can deal with this until I move to Leopard.