GUI firewall

[Kevin J. Cummings]

fabiano wrote:
> Jeremy Conlin wrote:
> 
>> The more I have to use the firewall, the more I get scared because I 
>> find it very cryptic.  I have been trying to enable vnc (see thread 
>> titled 'enabling vnc') and cannot do it unless the firewall is 
>> disabled.  Becuase I am still new to Linux and can't get completely 
>> away from my GUI, I need something to help me.  I am sure that there 
>> is a GUI firewall program out there, I just haven't found one yet.  Is 
>> there one that is recommended over another?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
> Menu
> System setting->Security Level
> 
> If you have installed it , it's a gui configuration for firewall
> 

Maybe, but it doesn't explicitly cover VNC, which Jeremey needs.  I'm 
pretty sure he doesn't know *which* ports to allow through for VNC.
At least he needs to add 5900:tcp for DISPLAY :0, and add 1 for each 
succeeding DISPLAY that he wants to be available....


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