[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What happend to firewall option in latest MCC ==> Security? >Only "security level" option is left there, at last in KDE. > >Irek > Well, if you had a local network and used firewall on one of the machines...
1. CUPS would not work on remote printers 2. Remote systems could not print on your firewalled machine 3. If you had connection sharing and you used firewall on that, no services except internet services would exchange through that gateway. In particular, running your own mailserver was impossible without hand-editing some files. 4. NFS and NIS were also blocked on local networks. In other words, the ultra-conservative approach to allowing nothing locally made the firewall a way for newbies to generate tech help requests, not anything really useful except for single stand-alone machines with an internet connection. This was confirmed a little too late to redo the tool to something reasonable for this release, and it was masked in previous releases by other problems. MCC is supposed to be simple tools for newbies, and in this case, several configuration scenarios have to be envisioned, described, coded and interfaced to the user, or else the interaction of the tool isn't very newbie-friendly. Bastille is still around so you can make custom firewalls to suit your taste, and it does a certain amount of education interactively. BTW I still see the icon in MCC but clicking it closes MCC. Civileme
