While samba suggests ufw, ufw is not enabled on installation and so default installations are not affected. That said, it has been brought up that perhaps ufw should open up ports on an enabled firewall when a package is installed in Ubuntu. There are pros and cons to this, and it is a contentious topic. The current position is that this does not happen because it punches holes in the firewall that an administrator may not want. For example, if apache2 was installed and ufw opened up the necessary ports, then ufw would have to open them up to the world (because it doesn't know otherwise). While apache2 would certainly work, ufw may not be following the site's firewall policy (consider the situation where this web server is an internal-only website).
There has been some work done to allow this behavior to be configurable, but this functionality is not complete or available in Ubuntu. -- ufw blocks samba in karmic default installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
