iTunes vs. Firewalls

iTunes on the PC on my desk (notice I feel more possessive of the desk than the PC) hasn’t been able to share music to or from iTunes on my PowerBook. Blame the firewall.

A moment of Googline led me to Travis Saling’s guide to enabling iTunes sharing through a firewall. Here’s the ports that need to be open:

Port 3689 TCP
Port 5353 UDP

However, he notes:

Mac OS X users have it slightly simpler. They only need to allow one port through [port 3689 TCP], for reasons that are unclear to me as yet (I’m guessing the Mac firewall is at least partially stateful, which would explain this).

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Posted August 20, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. .

14 Comments

  1. Comment by gunnar on December 14, 2004 5:52 pm

    Thanks for the infomation! Helped me a lot! :-)

    Reply
  2. Comment by mike on March 22, 2005 9:30 pm

    Can anyone give me like step by step directions on how to open port 3689 tcp because i have no clue.

    Reply
  3. Comment by julicien on April 16, 2005 4:58 pm

    thanks

    Reply
  4. Comment by jack on August 31, 2005 8:18 pm

    this does not help me since i do not have windows firewall enabled

    Reply
  5. Comment by william on December 8, 2005 3:46 pm

    This helped loads (XP user)
    If you are still having probs you should also check norton ‘cus it has a firewall built into it sumwhere which is accessed through options menu, nowhere else

    Reply
  6. Comment by sbastian on October 4, 2006 2:57 pm

    Mike, most likely you don’t want to open TCP 3689. If you have a specific reason, please do let us know.

    Reply
  7. Comment by Darren on November 28, 2006 1:12 pm

    I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skipping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If someone could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appreciate it because its driving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.

    Reply
  8. Comment by nancy lavin on August 1, 2007 11:16 am

    I am reading that you helped folks with Port 3689 TCP. i can’t open the shared iTunes with my son. I could before and now I am getting this message:

    The shared library “jwilder’s music” is not accessible for an unknown reason. (-3259)

    Check that any firewall software on either the shared computer or this computer has been set to allow communication on port 3689.

    Can you help?

    Reply
  9. Comment by Jack Eden on November 2, 2007 7:55 pm

    When I disabled one of my anti-spyware programs, Spyware Sweeper, the 3259 error went away.

    Reply
  10. Comment by Adam Whit on January 13, 2008 5:01 pm

    You are my idol! Thank you for this :)

    Reply
  11. Comment by Lord on January 15, 2008 9:31 am

    Not iTunes sharing library.

    Router D-Link DI-624s.
    iMac – LAN to router.
    BookPC – Wi-Fi to router.

    My help.

    Reply
  12. Comment by Liam on March 23, 2008 9:31 am

    worked like a charm thanks

    Reply
  13. Comment by iTunes Music Blog on November 28, 2008 12:17 am

    I cannot say how right you are!!! These other people have failed to see your point. I am going to put a link on my blog back to you ok?

    Reply
  14. Comment by iTunes Music Blog on December 6, 2008 1:05 pm

    Oh man that’s great!!! You’re so right, everyone to date has failed to even see that, kudos!!! I’m going to link to your blog from my site, ok?

    Reply

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