Re: Network issue openSUSE 11.1

Isn't that a bit too drastic?
Maybe only open the necessary ports (139 and 445) and leave the
firewall in place?
No firewall seems a bit too much, IMHO anyways.

Regards,

Dumitru

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Howard Krakower <[email protected]> wrote:
> Problem solved! The firewall (which is enabled by default) has to be disabled.
> In order to do this, you have to run YaST (logon as administrator) and disable
> the firewall.
>
> Every linux flavour has it's own peculiarities.
>
> Quoting Howard Krakower <[email protected]>:
>
>> Some flavours of Linux seem to have different issues depending on the
>> hardware involved - in my case, I am using a Dell D600 notebook.
>>
>> I put Ubuntu on it a while back - started with Hardy Heron, where I
>> had a difficult time getting the wireless network to work. Eventually
>> (after a month of grief and experimentation) it worked (no reason why
>> it suddenly decided to work). Hardy heron worked fine, then I did the
>> update to Ibex. With Ibex, the networking worked fine, but on occasion
>> the mouse (touchpad) froze - solved by rebooting - not a pretty
>> solution, but it did work. What worked fine was the ability to mount
>> and access shared network drives at home, on Windoze-based machines.
>>
>> Two days ago I did the update to Ubuntu 9.10. All updates had been
>> done using the update manager. The system would boot up fine, but as
>> soon as I tried to open any application, it froze totally.
>>
>> Fortunately, I had nothing of value on the drive, so I didn't feel any
>> loss blowing it all away and starting over. I figured I would try
>> Fedora - bad mistake, as the screen froze and flickered with just the
>> Fedora logo. At this point I questioned whether it was hardware, so, I
>> loaded Windoze on it just to see if all worked well - and it did.
>>
>> I tried putting Ubuntu 9.10 on it from a CD, and it froze up. So I
>> decided to see what else there was out in the linux world that would
>> work, and I settled on openSUSE. I downloaded the installation DVD and
>> it installed fine. The wireless was a bit tricky, but once I installed
>> bcm43xx-fwcutter, it works like a charm.
>>
>> There is only one thing I cannot seem to get working - the ability to
>> browse the Windoze network - just a simple WORKGROUP at home where I
>> know we have shared directories. I cannot see those folders and cannot
>> mount them.
>>
>> Any ideas on how this can be done?
>>
>> Oh, yes - I find openSUSE takes longer to boot up than Ubuntu, but
>> once up, applications load faster. In particular, Firefox loads pages
>> faster. It also authenticates on the network much quicker than under
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> Howard Krakower
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