[Lancaster] Firewall problem

[Ken Hough]

Wayne, Mark, Andy,

Hi all! Good to learn that you are all alive and active.

I've been trying to make progress with my original query wrt firewall settings 
for my wi-fi enabled Printer/scanner, but still with no success. I discovered a 
web page by Canon which gave port settings for their printers, but still no 
success. Puzzling!

If I drop the firewall, it works OK.

Maybe I should learn a bit more about networking diagnostics. Perhaps 
wireshark could help me.

Re Linux chat, etc, that could be good although I'm a bit long in the tooth 
compared with you guys. My hearing isn't what it used to be so that I find it 
hard to pick out voices in the general background noise of a pub.

My computer activities mostly involve boring stuff like email, buying selling 
via Internet, photo image processing. I used to use Gimp (with UFRaw plug-in) 
for all of my DSLR image processing, but am finding darktable (v2.0.4 which I 
had to compile from source code) to be much better  --  well worth the effort.

I get to try new distros including Win 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 via VirtualBox. Was 
distinctly unimpressed with the former and not keen on the latter. I guess 
that I've got used to Debian stable releases plus my own tweeks.

Have been helping a friend to update his Linux PC from Linux Mint v14 to v17 
and was very impressed with this distro. It has to be the best distro that 
I've seen for encouraging Windoze users to jump ship. Very neat!

My two main desktop PCs use 120GB SSDs for the OS and 1TB spinners for /home 
and data. I've also fitted an SSD into my trusty little ASUS netbook. The 
increase in bootup and app loading speeds via SSD is stunning. Highly 
recomended!

I have three Raspberry Pis, including a Pi 3 which has enough clout to be 
quite useful  --  it's even capable of playing DVDs via a USB CD/DVD player  
without any significant jitter (needs libdvdcss2 to be compiled from source 
code).

Am presently experimenting with a Pi B+ running a Pi camera streaming video 
via a static IP address on wi-fi.

Being familiar with Debian means that Raspian isn't difficult to manage although 
there are enough differences to be a niusance  --  until I figure them out.

Regards

Ken


On Thursday 21 Jul 2016 08:54:22 Wayne Ward via Lancaster wrote:
> Hi ken hope all is well yes i keep my eye on here and its quite 
> been meaning to getting round to creating my new lug in morecambe for a
> while but ive never managed to get it geared in ! 
> im always up for a meet and linux chat!
> 
> do you know what ports are required to be open 
> i see 8612 needs to be open am i correct
> also is this UDP or TCP or both
> 
> what command are you using to open that port?
> 
> in the Gufw gui are you stating that this port is open tcp/udp and
> allowed?
> and have you looked at the logs 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Wayne Ward :)
> 
> PS how are the others guys out there are you all still with us!?
> 
> On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 16:32 +0100, Ken Hough via Lancaster wrote:
> > Hi guys, long time no meet/talk.
> > 
> > I need some help wrt firewall settings.
> > 
> > My main PC (Core 2 Quad Q9550 with 8GB RAM) runs Debian Jessie, I use
> > Firefox, 
> > KMail, etc with iptables configued via gufw. No problems.
> > 
> > I recently set up my Canon Pixma MG5650 printer/scanner to operate
> > via wifi 
> > which it does correctly provided that the firewall is disabled. I've
> > tried 
> > various firewall settings that I've seen recommended via the
> > Internet, but 
> > without success.
> > 
> > Can any of you gurus help me?
> > 
> > Ken Hough
> > Kendal
> > 
> > 
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