On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayle...@eircom.net> wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayle...@eircom.net> > > wrote: > > > >> I see that I have to open ports 1714-1764, TCP and UDP. > >> I'm running firewalld on the laptop. > >> I give the command "firewall-config" and authenticate. > >> Clicking on zone "internal" I see that kde-connect is ticked. > >> And when I go to Ports I see that ports 1714-1764 are listed, TCP and > >> UDP. And all this remains set if I reboot. > > > > Let's try the simple stuff first... Is your default zone for your network > > connection also "internal"? > > Thank you very much. > That was indeed the issue. > After changing the default zone to "internal" everything works fine. > > But I don't understand the reasoning behind this. > This use of the term "zone" seems to me misleading and bizarre. > I run shorewall on my home server, and there the "zone" > can be "net", "local", etc. > Any changes made to a particular zone come into effect > on restarting shorewall. > It would not make sense in this context to choose a "default zone". > Based on my limited understanding, each network interface can be associated with a different zone, so in the case of a typical home user, you'll only ever use one zone so you need to change the rules for the zone your one network interface is associated with. > Incidentally, restarting firewalld does not seem to me to work properly, > as a window comes up asking for authentication. > I don't recall any other service requiring this, > and it would seem to prevent remote restarting. I assume you're doing this from the gui interface as a normal user? In that case yes, it wants to make sure you are some one in the "wheel" group so it's a gui equivalent to sudo. Thanks, Richard
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