On 2013-09-10 23:11, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 10.09.2013 22:58, schrieb Heiko Adams:
> Am 10.09.2013 22:07, schrieb Peter Oliver:
>> Empathy's "People Nearby" feature doesn't work out of the box
because
>> the required ports are blocked by default by the firewall
>> (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844308). It's a similar
>> story with Gnome's "Media Sharing" feature, and I'm sure there
are lots
>> of other examples.
>>
> AFAIR the samba client port is also blocked by default which makes it
> impossible to share files with windows machines
what is a samba *client* port?
if you want to offer shares you are a *server*
*server ports* for *incoming* connections must be closed as default
to protect people not knowing what they are doing before read minimal
manpages like "do not open samba on the WAN" - period
Nobody questions this. Thie issue in this thread is if we could find
ways to make it simpler to enable these services.