The point is quite simple. This problem can be considered historical and it seems a solution won't come in the near future. I understand the security concerns, but it's pointless to have a secure system if it doesn't provide the functionality you need. Moreover, not having a viable solution, users are brought to do manual changes to the firewall configuration, potentially compromising it, which is even worse. I don't think it's reasonable at all to answer that you should: - use an internal interface: almost all systems have a single card, and many offices just uses laptops for their versatility. - tell the user it's an unlucky situation, which actually is not an answer but just a way to tell "it's not my problem". Considering SuSE and Novell are promoting Linux as a viable alternative to Windows and that they want to improve interoperability between these two worlds, I have some problem to understand how interoperability can granted when it's not possible to easily configure, in a reasonably secure way, the browsing of the local network. Regards, Alberto Il giorno ven, 09/02/2007 alle 14.08 +0100, Marcus Meissner ha scritto:

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:04:02PM +0100, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:

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Just to conclude, the bug is (not) fixed (and won't be):

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243809

When Novell will stop giving non-answers it will be a nice day.

The rule quoted there effectively opens your whole firewall.

What is the point?

Ciao, Marcus

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