Why isn't there a thingy for configuring the firewall in the "system settings" collection of configurators for Fedora 17?
In older versions, system-config-firewall was in the menus, and readily apparent as the thing you went to, to adjust your firewall. But there's nothing, obvious as the way to adjust it, now. You'd have to know about the old tool, or manually write iptables rules. But in this, modern everything is done in the GUI, system, there's nothing showing. I became particularly peeved about this, when CUPS didn't find any printers (or print servers) on my LAN, when it should. And the first port of call, in the past, would be to open up the firewall and allow IPP printing/serving options, as appropriate. But there being no apparent way to the newbie to do this. Gnome developers may well think there's no need for users to fiddle with their firewall, but when the printing doesn't work because the default rules forbid it, not providing any configurator, nor even any clues, smacks of incompetence. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.6-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 5 21:59:35 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
