Depends on your distro.  In RH-derived ones you can get to it off the 
main menu (in Gnome, at least). It's down a couple of levels. I assume 
most distros will be similar.

-mj-

Major.Mikey wrote:

> how do you turn the firewall off?
> 
> On Sunday 07 August 2005 09:37 pm, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> 
>>*nix file sharing (aka NFS) works best and easiest between machines that
>>are NOT running individual firewalls. In that case they MUST have a
>>really good firewall machine sitting between them and the net.
>>
>>AAMOF, if someone knows of a simple tutorial on how to configure a Linux
>>box's firewall to allow NFS traffic but block just about everything
>>else, I'd REALLY like a pointer to it. The only times I've gotten NFS to
>>work, it was on boxen with firewalls off. In that case, it's dirt
>>simple--but you gotta be behind a really tight firewall box.
>>
>>-mj-
>>
>>Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 01:47 -0700, Glitch wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> I could really use some help with some networking stuff. I have a
>>>>couple of Linux computers on a network together but don't know how to
>>>>make them see each other. What I need is the equal to drive mapping in
>>>>windows. I think that I might be able to do this through NFS but I am
>>>>not even sure how. So please any input on the issue would be great. I
>>>>am trying to connect two PC's running Suse 9.3. Both computers have
>>>>routable IP addresses and I cannot through SSH and FTP without issue
>>>>just need something more like network file access.
>>>
>>>-----
>>>SuSE may have some 'how-to' on NFS and networking issues.
>>>
>>>You probably have to consider firewall can block stuff so if you have
>>>these computers on the same network, try to make this work with the
>>>firewall settings off on the computers at first.
>>>
>>>Now for the 'how-tos' - always check tldp.org (the linux documentation
>>>project)
>>>
>>>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/
>>>
>>>see the 'networking' and 'NFS' how-tos
>>>
>>>Craig
>>>
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