Comments on: Gufw - Simple GUI for ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall)

By: stanley82

stanley82 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:53:42 +0000

Thanks, I’ve added 135 and it’s not made any difference. I still have to disable the firewall and once the “my files” on the other machines are mounted on my desktop I can re-enable the firewall and work with the already mounted “my files”. I’m missing something and it’s a silly I’m sure. I’ve moved up to Mint 11 by the way. Regards Ian.

stan@Ian ~ $ sudo ufw status verbose
[sudo] password for stan:
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), allow (outgoing)
New profiles: skip

To Action From
-- ------ ----
80/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere
22 ALLOW IN Anywhere
443 ALLOW IN Anywhere
4662 ALLOW IN Anywhere
137,138/udp (Samba) ALLOW IN Anywhere
139,445/tcp (Samba) ALLOW IN Anywhere
135/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere

By: pete

pete — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:47:11 +0000

@stanley82\Ian - my commant may be a bit late, but you also need TCP port 135 open for Samba.

By: stanley82

stanley82 — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:07:58 +0000

Getting my home lan with Samba and any firewall is difficult. If I disable the firewall I can mount the files from my No 2 Mint onto my No 1 Ubuntu 10.4. After that I can enable the firewall and play with the files. I’m not able to m.ount the files from No 2 onto No 1 with the firewall enabled.
On gufw I have
137/udp allow in anywhere
138/udp allow in anywhere
139/tcp allow in anywhere
445/tcp allow in anywhere
What am I doing wrong? Regards Ian.

By: Fatcoyote

Fatcoyote — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:10:36 +0000

I have tried to use pulse audio. The only way I can use skype and run my wine games is with esound. Why isn’t Esound just offered as an easy option since pulsequdio is obviously a WIP? Also why are so many people in denial about Pulse Audio? It breaks too many things that are not broken by anything else.they must have their heads stuck in the sand not to know this. I even have a linux native game that will not exit when pulseaudioo is used.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:25:43 +0000

hey UG, just wanted to thank you for this .. thought you'd like to know I gave it a well-deserved mention in my Karmic security overview, as part of my recent Karmic Installation Bible:- HACK-PROOF 9.10 Anti-Virus & Firewall [KARMIC KOALA BIBLE #19] and which in turn has been published as a pdf by my partner for this guide, MakeUseOf.com:- The Incredible Guide to NEW Ubuntu (Karmic Koala) [PDF] .. er, it's on Scribd too! Cheers UG, as I mention, you are always very good value, and this write-up is no exception. Appreciate very much the benefit of your experience.

By: David Shar

David Shar — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:38:20 +0000

Hi,

I would like to know how to block region specific traffic using open source firewall. I use gufw, which has a function under “File” - “+Banning IP Address” but it demands some kind of IP address format that I do not understand.

I get a lot of spam and I would like to kill all that crap at the earliest.

Peace,

David Shar

By: flexo

flexo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:22:56 +0000

its simple, with gufw u deny all incoming conections to your computer, not your outgoing conections. with vista u block all trafic

By: bekend

bekend — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:27:25 +0000

I just installed Ubuntu. I use UFW and GUFW. When I set GUFW on Deny all incoming traffic I still can use all internet activities. When I use Windows Vista and set my firewall on blocked all traffic I do not have internet access. Question: What do I wrong with GUFW?

By: joecrow

joecrow — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:59:15 +0000

@Jj
Gufw and Firestarter are both frontends to ufw. So incoming and outgoing traffic can be configured with both.

By: jj

jj — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:22:33 +0000

Firestater is bi-directional(meaning controls both incoming and outgoing traffic.) I do not believe ufw is.

By: Daevid Vincent

Daevid Vincent — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:31:37 +0000

wish this was part of “apt-get install gufw”, but aside from that, glad to see progress being made on this.

Some pre-configured rules should be done for mysql (3306) and also for http (80), https, samba, and various other common developer ports.

Good start though!

By: RobK

RobK — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:56:53 +0000

I still like Firestarter better than gufw. Why? Well, in my view, Firestarter produces BETTER iptable rules than does ufw or gufw.

But there is still a lot of room for someone to develeop a TRULY uncomplicated GUI iptable Firewall program. Unfortunately, neither gufw or Firestarter are it.

Please someone look at the Mac OS X Firewall GUI in Tiger (not Leopard). It is VERY easy for most newbies to figure out. There is no reason why the same GUI could not be developed for Linux iptables (or ufw).

By: admin

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:37:30 +0000

@Edson

This service is intended to use for desktop for GUI or ufw for Server

By: Edson

Edson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:11:53 +0000

Can i use this tool to setup a network firewall (not a desktop firewall)???

By: Imi

Imi — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:28:20 +0000

In this time I haven’t got more time to study features and setting for this nice gui, but It will be good GUI use ubuntu for desktop, but there is a question:

In my desk, there is no servers, so I want to enables only established connections to allow incomeing, there is a way to use this setting, with guwf?

Thank’s for the answer.

By: Marcos Alvarez

Marcos Alvarez — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:51:55 +0000

Thanks for the entry
We release new version (0.20.0). It’s in the Administration menu, in the repositoy of Intrepid and important improvement
Best regards.

By: Imi

Imi — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:28:47 +0000

I find the gui in different place, on system menu, on Hardy.