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Fonzie · Nov 28, 2005, 06:31 AM

Hello all.

I didn't search for this since I think i'm the only one with the problem(or rather a friend of mine is having the problem)

Here's the deal; my friend is a bit paranoid and always installs Little Snitch before he launches any app. This is on a fresh Tiger on one of the new iMac's with PhotoBooth and Front Row installed by default. When my friend finally got himself together and went to try out Front Row and wanted to look at the Movie Trailers section then Front Row wanted to connect to www.apple.com, which is normal for the app I would guess in order to retrieve the trailers. However I was there with him when Little Snitch popped up asking for permission to go online. We simply couldn't find a way to accept the requester, neither the Return-key or the mousecursor did anything.
So Little Snitch blocked the connection to www.apple.com - as it usually does if there is no response in some 30-45 seconds. Then we both thought that it was no deal since we could always allow Front Row to connect to any site from within Little Snitch preferences. We did so and found that, when launching Front Row and go to the Movie Trailers section, we get the message that the server is not responding.
This has been going on since he got his iMac some days ago.

What on earth is there to do. Deleting the plist file for Front Row does nothing.

Thanks for reading this and taking the time to come up with solutions.

GENERAL_SMILEY · Nov 28, 2005, 07:05 AM

Open Little Snitch preference pane find Front Row edit rule from denied to allow. Marvel in beauty and speed of Trailer download - think why can't I watch films/tv like this?

Ta-Daaa... Problem solved.

Fonzie · Nov 28, 2005, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by GENERAL_SMILEY

Open Little Snitch preference pane find Front Row edit rule from denied to allow. Marvel in beauty and speed of Trailer download - think why can't I watch films/tv like this?

Ta-Daaa... Problem solved.

Please re-read the above post.

.......Then we both thought that it was no deal since we could always allow Front Row to connect to any site from within Little Snitch preferences. We did so and found that, when launching Front Row and go to the Movie Trailers section, we get the message that the server is not responding.

So, no ta-daaa there i'm afraid.

Fonzie · Nov 28, 2005, 10:44 AM

Here's an update. Messing around with Quicktime seemed to have worked.

kcmac · Nov 28, 2005, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by GENERAL_SMILEY

Marvel in beauty and speed of Trailer download - think why can't I watch films/tv like this?

Exactly. Would be like the next best thing to actually having the file.