On Wednesday 18 May 2005 11:52, Derek Jennings wrote: > > That may be how your firewall is configured, but it is not the default. > Accepted - I was not trying to argue with what you had said, just trying to avoid unnecessary complexity.
> I was trying to emphasise the point that the standard Mandriva firewall > will block traffic to the local network. Many people get caught out by > that. The symptoms you get include, being able to see remote printers, or > Windows computers, but not being able to access them. > > The firewall GUI in Mandriva Control Centre does not allow you to > discriminate between the internet and the local network (major shortcoming > IMO), you have to use webmin or edit the files by hand to open up the > ports. Or as you have done to open up the local network entirely. > I've never used the gui, so if that is so I agree with you, it is a serious shortcoming. > The firewall issue is something that be-devils newbies trying to network > Windows and Linux computers so I like to mention it frequently :-) > Yes, it's not really what a newbie would expect, is it? They expect it to be blocking external traffic, but not internal traffic - a reasonable assumption, but wrong in this case. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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