Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007 11:12, dwain wrote:
When I turn my firewall off I can see the other computers on my network, When I turn the firewall on, I can't. Does someone have a solution to this problem on how I can use my firewall and still be able to see my network with a firewall or some other setting?
You said you had a router connected to a DSL modem to run your network.
I assume you are turning on your Linux firewall... why?
What you are telling linux is that "you are connected to the internet (not an internal network" and therefore protect me from everything using the firewall". You just shut yourself off from your own network.
Almost all routers these days are very good firewalls and I would bet that you don't have the firewalls on your Windows machines turned on.
But in any event, if you want to run the linux firewall, then you are going to have to open up a lot of ports in order to talk to the rest of the network. So you are defeating the purpose here of the firewall.
So my router firewall is taking care of the internet part of the network? How can I check to make sure this is happening? dwain -- Dwain Alford Alford Design Group P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 email: dwain@alford-design-group.com web: http://www.alford-design-group.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org