I want to run Squeezebox server on my Mac running OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. The Firewall settings on 10.6 now let you speciy by Application things that are allowed to connect through the firewall. But Squeezebox server isn't an application, so I can't select it.
If I turn the firewall off, it works fine. This is a reasonable step for a desktop (as it's always connecting to the 'net through the router's firewall) but on a laptop that connects via public WiFi it doesn't seem like a good idea.
Help!
It turns out there is a way to do this, although I'd be nice if there was a better way. You can add command-line applications to that allowed by the Firewall settings, and as the Squeezebox server is just a Perl script, if you add /usr/bin/perl to the list of apps allowed, then it works ok.
When you go to add an Application to the list, you can't see the /usr directory listed, even from the root of the disk, so you have to symlink the /usr/bin directory to somewhere that is visible, and then you can navigate to the appropriate directory & select perl.exe. Once you've added perl.exe to the list, you can remove the symlink.
There's another way to get this to work: in the firewall advanced settings dialog if you uncheck the 'Enable stealth mode' option then you should see it ask whether you want to add Perl to the list of apps allowed, rather than have to jump through the hoops of symlinking and adding it to the list manually.