Re: firewall changes for F-9+

[Tim Niemueller <tim niemueller de>]

Matthew Saltzman schrieb:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 17:13 +0100, Tim Niemueller wrote:
>> Adam Tkac schrieb:
>>>> IpSec and IPP as services don't sound very much like desktop
>>>> applications.
>> They do if you have a desktop machine sharing a printer. If the
>> system-config-printer tool would open up the IPP port automatically when
>> you share a printer that would be fine though.
> 
> Does the "sharee" also need the IPP ports open?  So a user would need to
> explicitly set "show printers shared by other systems" in
> s-c-printers--it couldn't be the default.

The one who shares has to have the ports open for others to be able to
open a connection.

For the "Show printers shared by other systems" you need to have udp:631
open or mDNS (not currently the default to use mDNS, but cups broadcast
is used instead.

	Tim

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