Re[2]: Network issue openSUSE 11.1

Actually, the firewall can be switched on and off rather easily. So,
when I'm on my home network behind the router, I switch it off. On a
strange wi-fi network, i.e., a public one, it will be switched on.

Howard

Monday, November 2, 2009, 10:13:46 AM, Dumitru Ciobanu wrote:

> 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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