F17: Firewall disable/stop

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, antonio montagnani
<antonio.montagnani at alice.it> wrote:
> Ed Greshko ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 06/05/2012 07:55:
>> On 05/06/2012 01:46 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>>
>>> I have 3 different F17, but only 1 fresh installation: I have installed
>>> system-config 1.2.29-7.FC17 on all machines, but when I start it on the
>>> fresh F-17
>>> I get an error stating:
>>> ERROR:FirewallD is active, please use firewall-config
>>>
>>> What does it mean??
>>
>>
>> It means "firewalld" is being used as opposed to iptables.
>>
>> I forgot the link on fedoraproject that talks about firewalld.  But, I
>> wouldn't spend
>> too much time on it since firewalld, I've heard, is being dropped as the
>> default
>> firewall for F17 and being pushed back to F18.
>>
>
> I am confused...
> If I SSH from fresh F17 to an updated F17 everything is o.k.: on the other
> way from the updated F17 to fresh F17, I get the message that key
> verification didn't succeed (and password is correct): I guess that it si
> something connected to firewall. Any hint?? and I cannot also share in
> Public folders..

What's the output of "iptables -S" on both boxes?