Samba won't dance [Solved - sort of]

[max]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Fri April 18 2008, max wrote:
>> Firestarter? what's wrong with the native firewall provided?
> 
> the native system-config-firewall was not much more than a simple graphical 
> interface for iptables script coding; it offered a smattering of 
> preconfigured services you could enable/disable; it let you trust an 
> interface but with little customization; if you wanted to add custom rules, 
> they had to be in the form of iptables based scripts that you could point to
> 
> Firestarter is an elegant simple application that offers many more 
> pre-configured services you can enable/disable; it offers the ability to 
> quickly share the connection by asking you a couple of questions and 
> configuring dhcp and routing for you between outside and inside connections; 
> it logs events and provides you the ability to view them and if you spot 
> something being blocked you want let through, you can right-click on the 
> event and get a menu of rules you can enable such as permitting the service, 
> permitting the source, etc... It lets you quickly start and stop the firewall 
> which is very useful for testing. It's not actually my favored firewall app 
> for Fedora but I use it as a personal firewall for individual machines that 
> are already otherwise firewalled from the internet - for machines I put up on 
> the net, I personally prefer FWBuilder, which is a much more robust 
> configuration utility that allows very complex setups and rules with an 
> object/table based GUI configuration system - 
> 
> just downloaded the latest system-config-firewall from rawhide this evening, 
> and it's a big step forward, though still not as robust as the two programs 
> above -- they've added a bunch of new pre-configured services, which is nice 
> and some other capabilities -- 
> 
> I've also used Shorewall which was capable enough - just preferred the other 
> two
> 
Right on.

Max