in order to scan wirelessly from my computer to the Mac 10.6, I have to turn off the firewall. is there a way to allow that scanner through the firewall without turning it off?

You can try clicking on the Airport icon in the tool bar, it will scan for networks, but not find hidden networks. Dropping your firewall can be hazardous, unless you are connecting to a secure network you trust. This is not a safe way to hijack a connection.

You can enable scan sharing in system preferences, which will require disabling the firewall, send the scan then turn the firewall back on, if it is on your local network the risk is reduced. Just be cognizant of this. yYou should only do this with addresses you know and trust. There is probably someone on yhr Community who knows much more than I do, but I would not want to be the cause of a catostosphic problem for you. I wish you all the best, SJP

Sorry, I meant the Apple Support Community. It was a typo, as I am not the best keyboard operator:) Local network is usually OK. All the best and hope this helped you, SJP

If your router/modem connecting you to the internet has a hardware firewall (most do) set that up and turn off the software firewall. You don't need both.

If you do need to use the OS X firewall, go to System Preferences > Security > Firewall > Advanced and try adding the IP address of the scanner to the white list in the box.

Most welcome 😎

Hi I'm trying to solve this problem with my new Epson printer. I can't seem to find this option in Firewall > Advanced.

Has this option to "add IP address" moved in Mountain Lion?

Thanks in advance!

Try going to syst prefs>firewall>firewall options, make sure that "block all incoming connections" is unchecked. You then can click the + and from the left under devices select your printer. Printer should be on to be discovered.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried adding the printer but there is no option when clicking +. It allows me to select an application, but not a device. Printer is on, but can't see it.. just the finder window showing folders and applications.

Any ideas?

fillopastry,

fillopastry wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried adding the printer but there is no option when clicking +. It allows me to select an application, but not a device. Printer is on, but can't see it.. just the finder window showing folders and applications.

Any ideas?

fillopastry wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried adding the printer but there is no option when clicking +. It allows me to select an application, but not a device. Printer is on, but can't see it.. just the finder window showing folders and applications.

Any ideas?

fillopastry wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried adding the printer but there is no option when clicking +. It allows me to select an application, but not a device. Printer is on, but can't see it.. just the finder window showing folders and applications.

Any ideas?

On the bottom of the sidebar to the left you should see devices, and just to the right of the word devices you can hover your cusor and show shouls appear, click on that and see if you can then see your device and click on it to add to the "white" list.

Hi again,

The printer is on, but doesn't show under "devices" on the sidebar. I've looked into finder > preferences > sidebar to see if there was an option unchecked, and no such luck 😐