Port 443 and 80 are blocked in FolderShare

I installed this on mac about 10 seconds ago and see the blockage. I have never used it before this very moment.

Did you open the ports and forward them using your router's settings?

When I tried to install it on my other device, their website went missing for now.
This is a beta service, which may be making things tough.
I'll look at it later, when their site is back.

(site going down may or may not affect how the syncronization works.)
This is a microsoft beta, as well.
There may be users here who have a different suggestion for you

OK.
Your router might open and forward a port in the same tool. Some have an "open port" and a separate "forward port" section.
It should work fine then with Upnp.
Are these computers both on the same side of the router when it fails, or in different network locations?
(what make/model of router, in case it matters)

(I cannot get my PC over to the foldershre website...but my mac can! 'go figure')

OK.
I've got it working from two computers inside my LAN. This bypasses the router, since both machines are "inside.
I did open/forward those ports to my mac, however. (not sure what that 'blocked'
Now I'll try from a computer outside the LAN.
Stay tuned.

And I connected from a windows machine in another city into my mac (using remote desktop).

We need more information about your router, your mac firewall/sharing settings.
(my firewall on the mac is off, as well)

This is a pretty cool little app...when it works.

No, it really shouldn't be the router, if you're both on the same side. Except...it seems that this foldershare might be using a proxy to work its magic.
(check router for any firewall settings, and disable them during this testing.)

I was able to make this work on a mac>PC and PC>mac on the same side of the router, but the folderShare settings test also told me that ports were blocked. (it still worked)

You know...I would probably start file sharing, and possibly web sharing. I have both those enabled on my little mini-mac. Enable those in the sharing tab, leave the firewall alone for now.

OK, leave the NAT.
Wow...If you can see them both, then you are really close!
I'll look at this a bit more, but I don't know what you're missing.
I'll be home to look at mine, but not in a few hours.

This is where I'm at too.
Can't figure out what to do next.

Have you had any luck with this issue? I have been experiencing the same problem. I noticed today, however, that the ports are listed as "blocked" on the Windows machine as well, though it is receiving files from the Mac and another PC without a problem. Could something other than the port settings be keeping the Mac from receiving files?

We were happy to find this discussion of someone having exactly our problem with Foldershare. But no solution? 😟

We have each a mac and each a tablet pc, and we have used foldershare to sync and share files among the four very happily for months. In fact, it's like our lives rely on it.

Then many things happened at once. We each reformatted and reinstalled Windows on our tablets at the end of September. At that point foldershare stopped sending anything more than the p2p file from the pcs to the mac (mac to pc and mac to mac and pc to pc all work). We started in with foldershare support and just got the suggestion from them to delete and recreate libraries, which didn't work.

Meanwhile we upgraded to Leopard, and the foldershare server went down for a few days at about the same time. Everyone was confused and it took a while to sort out that leopard is okay with foldershare. But we still have this same problem that a pc to mac transfer results only in the p2p file being placed and a lot of flashing notes about pending, connecting, listening, etc, that never result in a transfer.

Since it happened after we reformatted the pcs, probably it's a pc thing. Right now I'm trying to see if there's any Windows update from that time that would explain it, but I haven't found it yet.