Netowork notifications

DMA · Post by **DMA** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:36 am

Does anyone know if there are quirks in the network notifications - I've been right through the settings and it seems only the first notification gets through if all network version of growl have been restarted. All the machines can see each other over bonjour and I've been careful not to enable loops.

scoob · Post by **scoob** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:43 pm

I was/am having similar problems.... I was not getting notifications on my remote machine. However, I disabled my (Mac OS X) firewall and notifications began to come through.

Does anyone know what port to enable on the firewall or if Stealth Mode prevents Growl from displaying notifications?

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:00 pm

http://growl.info/documentation/developer/protocol

I think, that was typed from memory

scoob · Post by **scoob** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:26 pm

Thank you!

Opened the TCP and UDP port, re-enabled the firewall and hey-presto!

DMA · Post by **DMA** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:27 pm

Nope - I've dropped every firewall on every mac and also the router. Something is broken. Each notification works only once.

DMA · Post by **DMA** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:49 pm

Extended the testing and it seems to be working ... but inconsistently, quite often notifications, particularly follow up notifications (second, third, fourth of a batch), are just lost.

At the moment on my setup it's just not stable enough for me to consider using as a notification system.

Have you run multiple tests on this scoob?

DMA · Post by **DMA** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:53 am

OK appears to be working consistently now. I was following the applescript example which posts two notifications for one registration, and this leads to the inconsistent behaviour. If I post multiple individual notifications, each with separate registrations, I get consistent results. A little bit of a minefield, it would help if the docs were pulled together with all these tips. Hopefully this thread will help.

Post by **The_Tick** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:00 am

As it is right now, networking is really kinda flakey. Our docs are also kinda a mess as is.

bjeanes · Post by **bjeanes** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:53 pm

i have a macbook and an imac, both with growl, and both with the same growl settings. I have noticed that notifications on my macbook are forwarded correctly to the imac, but not viceversa. However if i use the commandline and direct messages to a host, it works (in both directions).

For some reason, even though the imac settings are set to forward them to my macbook, and the growlnotify command *can* forward the notifications to my macbook, it doesn't. ever. also, if either computer restarts or growl is restarted, the macbook will stop forwarding notifications to the imac and i have to reselect the computers in the growl settings on both computers. even then it doesn't work for at least 10-15 minutes. after this time, notifications from macbook arrive at the imac correctly.

also, there are no firewalls enabled anywhere (as is demonstrated by notifications being sent correctly using the command). Is there anything I am missing or is it just this so-called "flakiness"?

thanks, Bo

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:27 pm

Be careful when doing that, it's really easy to setup an infinite loop I believe.

However, can you show us screenshots from both macs of the network tab?

cocoaforge

Netowork notifications

Netowork notifications

Disabled Firewall for Network Notifications?

Thanks

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