[Wolves] firewalls

[david]

Ron

many thanks for that

i added 127.0.0.1 as a trusted host and now the file browsers open up

perfect

nux

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:00:50 +0000
Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:

> On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:32 pm, david wrote:
> > I need a little help, if anyone understands the nature of the following
> > problem...
> >
> > i have firestarter running on mdk9.2/kde and very occasionally gnome
> >
> > whilst firestarter is running i cannot open Konqueror via the "Home" link,
> > nor can I open Krusader or Nautilus or Gentoo. Rox will open but is not up
> > to the task required often. I can open Konqueror via the "Konqueror Web
> > Browser" link, but if I click on the Home Folder icon on the Konq' gui,
> > Konqueror crashes.
> >
> > any thoughts..?
> >
> > many thanks
> 
> This sounds like Konq etc are attempting to open a network connection to the 
> local machine via a network socket and since firestarter is running, the 
> connection gets firewalled.
> 
> Try adding a rule to allow the system to talk to itself (and ensure there is a 
> rule for the loopback interface lo on 127.0.0.1 )
> 
> -- 
> Ron Wellsted
> http://www.wellsted.org.uk
> ron at wellsted.org.uk
> N 52.567623, W 2.137621
> 
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