My pre-teen daughter loves to play Minecraft and so we gave her our approximately 5 year old MacBook to play it on. We got Minecraft working on it just fine. But then I turned on Parental Controls so that she couldn't use the laptop to see things she shouldn't and it stopped working. Whenever i turn Parental Controls off Minecraft works and whenever I turn them on it stops working. I tried adding "minecraft.net" to the safe website list but that didn't help. Does anyone have any ideas?
Mac, Minecraft and Parental Controls?
Gary
The parental controls may be blocking gaming sites. Minecraft also connects to various servers to enable play, checking updates and accounts:
It may also try to connect to:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/...zonaws.com
and
https://account.mojang.com/...mojang.com
Guest
Get a monitoring tool for the Mac to see where incoming network traffic comes from. Make sure only minecraft is running while doing this check and see which sites it access. Also, if your daughter plays online, on servers, I'd recommend you to download a third party parental tool that can allow certain programs to have full network access (and disable Apple's own).
Guest