o beckles wrote: > How? > > I don't run Mandrake as a server and so all of the services are > unchecked. However, that setting also kills client apps so I have to > research the applications and their ports and key them in at the > bottom, which does not always work.
actually, insert the lines opening the system for the apps at the top of the list. 1 it makes it easier to find when testing the settings 2 I beleive that the first configuration for a port overrides any subsequent configuration, so at the top the apps get through while at the bottom they don't > > > One example is rdesktop which is documented to only use one port but > adding that port/tcp and port/udp does not help any. > > To me that equates to a default setting of high when compared to other > firewalls programs. > > Ben Reser wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:10:27PM -0400, o beckles wrote: >> >> >>> Are there any plans to allow different levels of protection in the >>> firewall? Right now the iptables rules are too strict to function >>> properly on a windows network without manually adjusting the rules. >>> >> >> >> Huh? You can adjust them however you want? >
