Cheetah Sync Firewall Guide for Mac OS X

Introduction

Far and away the largest number of support emails we receive for Cheetah Sync have to do with connection issues. Our users will download and install the Cheetah Sync Server on their Mac, then open up the Cheetah Sync app on their Android device and hit the Sync Jobs button, and... the Mac cannot be found.

We wrote the server and app code specifically to try and make it easy and painless for the Android app to auto-discover the computer, and most of the time it works. However, for users for whom it doesn't work right away, almost always it's a firewall issue, either on their wireless router or their computer. This guide is intended to show our users the optimal firewall configuration so that their Android device can easily talk to their Mac.

Cheetah Sync Firewall Guide for Windows 7

Introduction

Far and away the largest number of support emails we receive for Cheetah Sync have to do with connection issues. Our users will download and install the Cheetah Sync Server on their computer, then open up their Cheetah Sync app on their Android device and hit the Sync Jobs button, and... their computer cannot be found.

We wrote the server and app code specifically to try and make it easy and painless for the Android app to auto-discover the host, and most of the time it works. However, for users for whom it doesn't work right away, almost always it's a firewall issue, either on their wireless router or their computer. This guide is intended to show our users the optimal firewall configuration so that their Android device can easily talk to their PC.

Cheetah Sync + Tasker

In Cheetah Sync 1.0.4, we are introducing Tasker support.  Why did we go through this trouble?  Because you can do some pretty powerful things with it!  Cheetah Sync is great if you want to sync on a schedule, but what if you want to sync every time you get home?  What if you want to sync every time you plug your device into its power cable?  Then this is the feature you've been wanting.

Since we have already created this tutorial for iSyncr WiFi, we are just going to use that one.  Just click here, and in step 13, enter "com.jrtstudio.SyncFolders.Sync" instead of "com.jrtstudio.iSyncr.WiFi.Sync".  That's it!

Introducing Cheetah Sync

Our customers have been asking for a general sync solution for some time.  We are please to announce that we now have one.  Cheetah Sync is a folder based wireless syncing program.  Just download Cheetah Sync from the Android Market.  Then download the server from JRTStudio.com.  Now you are ready to begin syncing!