Hello, So If I go and buy the Imac I will not get the web and FTP server with Tiger? Is this correct? Many thanks, Christian
On 2006-09-07 at 16:39 Travis Siegel wrote: >I've not used the firewall in tiger for actual firewalling yet, >though I did use it to allow my pc to share my wireless connection. >The pc was plugged into the ethernet port of the mac mini, and then >the mini was hooked up to the wireless router via wireless >connection. With local dns, dhcp, and gateway settings in the >firewall configuration, I was able to provide a connection to the >internet from a pc that did not have a wireless card. >The server setup that came with tiger greatly simplified this setup, >as this would have been a nightmare using manual configuration. I >haven't used the firewall since giving my ppc mini to my son, since >the intel machines do not have a server version of tiger yet, so I >could not duplicate my work in the intel arena. <sigh> >I really miss my server. >But, to answer your question, You can configure the firewall to allow >connections originating from the local machine, so that local apps >will be able to get out, but outside apps can't get in. However, how >this is done on the non-server version of tiger, I have no idea. In >the server, you could view and modify the ip rules if you so desired, >I've not looked at the non-server version of tiger to see where/if >this is done. >However, if all else fails, you can always use terminal as root to >configure the firewall rules.
