Try ferm, i've never been fond of the GUI fw management tools. Ferm is awesome though. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:16:12PM -0600, Larry McMains wrote: > > I have two Ubuntu 9.10 systems on a local network provided by a Linksys > > router. I installed Firestarter on one of them and found that, as > > expected, it blocked access for file sharing by the other system. > > However, I tried adding rules to allow connections from the other > > system, and to allow specific service (SMB) requests from the other > > system, both by specific network address and by host name, each rule > > alone and both of them together. All combinations of neither, either, or > > both rules result in the other computer being blocked (if I turn off the > > firewall, access works fine, so the sharing part is set up correctly). > > I'm obviously missing something, any suggestions? > > Show us the rules, together with the output of '/sbin/iptables-save' . > > Cheers, > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens Linux / Unix System Administror Three of your friends throw up after eating chicken salad. Do you think: "I should find more robust friends" or "we should check that refrigerator"? -- Donald Becker, on vortex-bug, suspecting a network-wide problem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100204/95000512/attachment.htm