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* mDNS related sharing: | * mDNS related sharing: | ||
** Music sharing (via DAAP, in Rhythmbox, Banshee, etc.) | |||
** Personal File sharing (WebDAV, through gnome-user-share) | |||
** Desktop sharing (VNC, through vinagre) | |||
** Remote disk management (udisks and gnome-disk-utility) | |||
** Local network chats (Pidgin, Empathy) | |||
* UPNP related: | * UPNP related: | ||
** DLNA music/movies/photos sharing (in Rygel, mediatomb, etc.) | |||
* Other: | * Other: | ||
** Automatic discovery of printers and other services (CUPS specific) | |||
** ssh | |||
Possible ways to improve the situation are: | Possible ways to improve the situation are: | ||
Revision as of 16:53, 12 April 2010
The problem with a static firewall as Fedora currently ships with iptables/system-config-firewall is that it actively interferes with a lot of things that users want to do with their desktops:
- mDNS related sharing:
- Music sharing (via DAAP, in Rhythmbox, Banshee, etc.)
- Personal File sharing (WebDAV, through gnome-user-share)
- Desktop sharing (VNC, through vinagre)
- Remote disk management (udisks and gnome-disk-utility)
- Local network chats (Pidgin, Empathy)
- UPNP related:
- DLNA music/movies/photos sharing (in Rygel, mediatomb, etc.)
- Other:
- Automatic discovery of printers and other services (CUPS specific)
- ssh
Possible ways to improve the situation are:
- Just turn the firewall off. Rely on not running any unnecessary network-facing services, and lock the necessary services down using SELinux.
- Allow applications to poke holes in the firewall, under user-control
- Handle different situations differently: no firewall when on the trusted 'home network', but strict firewall when using coffee shop wifi