Re: Samba won't dance [Solved - sort of]

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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

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA


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