Re: [gNewSense-users] How connect to my WinXP-Home machine with firewall?

[Sam Geeraerts]

Snoopys Woodstock wrote:
> gNewSense does not block any network traffic by default.
>
> Right because the firewall isn't actiated by default. Or did I missunderstood 
> something?

You could say that it's not activated.

> You can check your firewall settings by running "sudo iptables -L" in a 
> terminal.
>
> This is the output of "sudo iptables -L":
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination         
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination         
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> but I don't unterstand it.

You can think of iptables as the "raw" firewall. ufw is an easier 
front-end. This shows that everything is open (firewall is disabled). I 
assume you have set ufw to "default deny". To enable access to shared 
folders you probably have to enter "sudo ufw allow 445/tcp". I've 
updated the ports table on the wiki.