Subject: follow up: no smb network access

[Florian Idelberger]

Is there a standard firewall in fedora? If yes, how to turn it off?
I don't need because I'm behind a big proxy with a firewall.

Charles Tharp wrote:

>this is what i found works for me
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>static Ip
>"Yes I Can  Ping"
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>with firwall on  I get no samba
>I let my dsl router do the firwalling
>with firwall off  samba works
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>I do what I want to do and somtimes turn the linux firwall back on. 
>I dont think Its really needed since I have the router but not really sure.
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>on the windows machines I run norton internet security 
>Is there anything I shoud worry about on the linux side "Virus like"
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>all I will suggest is turn the firewall off till you get it working.
> Then you work on the firwall ports problem .
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>chuck
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