Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (73 mails)

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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 <jperlow@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
> >
> > > >
> > > 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.

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.

David

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