Samba won't dance [Solved - sort of]
max
maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 14:49:51 UTC 2008
Claude Jones wrote:
> On Fri April 18 2008, max wrote:
>> Firestarter? what's wrong with the native firewall provided?
>
> the native system-config-firewall was not much more than a simple graphical
> interface for iptables script coding; it offered a smattering of
> preconfigured services you could enable/disable; it let you trust an
> interface but with little customization; if you wanted to add custom rules,
> they had to be in the form of iptables based scripts that you could point to
>
> Firestarter is an elegant simple application that offers many more
> pre-configured services you can enable/disable; it offers the ability to
> quickly share the connection by asking you a couple of questions and
> configuring dhcp and routing for you between outside and inside connections;
> it logs events and provides you the ability to view them and if you spot
> something being blocked you want let through, you can right-click on the
> event and get a menu of rules you can enable such as permitting the service,
> permitting the source, etc... It lets you quickly start and stop the firewall
> which is very useful for testing. It's not actually my favored firewall app
> for Fedora but I use it as a personal firewall for individual machines that
> are already otherwise firewalled from the internet - for machines I put up on
> the net, I personally prefer FWBuilder, which is a much more robust
> configuration utility that allows very complex setups and rules with an
> object/table based GUI configuration system -
>
> just downloaded the latest system-config-firewall from rawhide this evening,
> and it's a big step forward, though still not as robust as the two programs
> above -- they've added a bunch of new pre-configured services, which is nice
> and some other capabilities --
>
> I've also used Shorewall which was capable enough - just preferred the other
> two
>
Right on.
Max
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