Just downloaded the Remote application for my IPod touch, but it didn't work… boo!
First thought was the firewall, however ITunes was already listed there so I thought it may be something else. Regardless I turned the firewall off and it worked fine. Running netstat –a from PowerShell (or a command line if you prefer) showed me what ports were in use. The only ones that looked suspicious, given what I knew about registered devices on my wireless network, was communications to my machine from 192.168.0.5 via port 3689.
FileSystem C:\ [1#]> netstat –a
Active Connections
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
….
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49434 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49435 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49436 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49437 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49438 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49439 ESTABLISHED
…
Adding an exception for that port fixed the issue:
