I don't want to remove the firewall, I think the firewall is good. All we need is the package installed by default, the services turned on, and the firewall rule set to permit those ports that the SMB/NMB protocol and the active directory stuff from SAMBA uses.

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Ubuntu has no default firewall to begin with, so I myself feel more secure with openSUSE.

Installing samba by default is something that is only done for GNOME so far, doing so also for KDE sounds easy to fix, but you're the first one to ask.

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BTW the firewall ports settings also apply to GNOME as well. IF we open them for KDE we should open them for GNOME. On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Jason Perlow wrote:

I don't want to remove the firewall, I think the firewall is good. All we need is the package installed by default, the services turned on, and the firewall rule set to permit those ports that the SMB/NMB protocol and the active directory stuff from SAMBA uses.

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Ubuntu has no default firewall to begin with, so I myself feel more secure with openSUSE.

Installing samba by default is something that is only done for GNOME so far, doing so also for KDE sounds easy to fix, but you're the first one to ask.

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Am Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009 schrieb Administrator:

Could I suggest that the firewall port opening is added as a default in the samba server setup rather than just as default ... that way they're closed for the people who don't configure (and activate) samba and get opened without hassle for those who use it.

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Andreas Jaeger wrote:

On Monday 05 October 2009 17:13:35 Jason Perlow wrote:

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I don't want to remove the firewall, I think the firewall is good. All we need is the package installed by default, the services turned on, and the firewall rule set to permit those ports that the SMB/NMB protocol and the active directory stuff from SAMBA uses.

Let's open a feature for this (use http://features.opensuse.org), I've talked with some developers and AFAIK it's not trivial to open the firewall to enable samba browsing since there's not a single well-known port - and you don't want to open it to the complete internet,

FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT="samba-client" This will not be the default though. If we start doing the we'll end up having all kinds of things enabled by default (slp, avahi, cups) just because it's convenient. This is not what the external zone is intended for and defeats the purpose of the firewall. A separate zone could be configured with such defaults though. Also, fwzs could be developed further¹. cu Ludwig [1] http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/28/firewall-zone-switcher-updated/ -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org