On 11/13/2012 10:17 AM, Tim wrote: > 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. >
Gosh, is it so hard to type "system-config-firewall"? I'm not sure about Gnome, but on XFCE, it's APPS -> Administration -> Firewall. -- -- Steve -- 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
