Try ferm, i've never been fond of the GUI fw management tools. Ferm is awesome though.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Florin Iucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florin@iucha.net">florin@iucha.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:16:12PM -0600, Larry McMains wrote:<br>
> I have two Ubuntu 9.10 systems on a local network provided by a Linksys<br>
> router. I installed Firestarter on one of them and found that, as<br>
> expected, it blocked access for file sharing by the other system.<br>
> However, I tried adding rules to allow connections from the other<br>
> system, and to allow specific service (SMB) requests from the other<br>
> system, both by specific network address and by host name, each rule<br>
> alone and both of them together. All combinations of neither, either, or<br>
> both rules result in the other computer being blocked (if I turn off the<br>
> firewall, access works fine, so the sharing part is set up correctly).<br>
> I'm obviously missing something, any suggestions?<br>
<br>
</div>Show us the rules, together with the output of '/sbin/iptables-save' .<br>
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Cheers,<br>
florin<br>
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