Can anyone tell me a good ide firewall to use in SuSE 9.1? I really don't like suse's firewall. I tried to use firestarter but when i stop the suse's firewall the firestarter does not show anything. I guess by stopping suse's firewall also iptable go down, but but i tried manually to start it and nothing hapens.
Anyway is any configuration file there which it allows ssh ,samba bittorrent xmule and some other services?

I am not in front of my computer right now, but I know that somewhere in the firewall setup in yast there is a blank line for port numbers. That is what I did for bittorrent, just put the port numbers you want to allow through in there and you are good to go.

As for other firewalls, I really have no idea. Sorry.

Yes, but have you tried to configure samba manually? It's terrible. ALLOW_SERVICE_SAMBA=yes, FORWARD_something e.g.

SuSE 9.1 Samba/SuSEfirewall 2 mini-HowTO
by Kreagon [kreagon {at} kreagon {dot} com]
date: 06/18/2004

Samba HowTOs
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/howto/

Samba-3 by Example
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/guide/

The Unofficial Samba HOWTO by David Lechnyr (A good place to start)
http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html

Command-line
For you command line die-hard navigate to /etc/sysconfig/.
Open SuSEfirewall2 with your favorite text editor.

Edit the following settings:
FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="139"
FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="137 138"
FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST="ext"

Save the file and exit.

run SuSEfirewall2 stop then SuSEfirewall2 start


GUI

Open Yast
Select System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor

The /etc/sysconfig Editor should now be open
Select Network -> Firewall -> SuSEfirewall2

Edit the following settings:
FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP 139
FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP 137 138
FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST ext

Choose Finish

That should do it.

Just to make sure things worked I rebooted both my Linux box and my windows box (Windows likes to keep a cache of things and for some reason it seems like SuSE doesn't always clear out things when you start and stop Samba either).


Hope this helps...
Here are the quick essentials. I am working on a mini-howto but this is meat of it.

let me know if you have troubles.