winxp sharing/firewall questions

[eazhar]

Hi, I'm new to linux using Fedora Core 2. I was quite impressed of how easy getting started on it was, considering i had very little hardware-driver complications. I'm doing a decent job figuring out how all this works, not too difficult since much of it looks like windows anyway and i've learned most of the basic terminal commands and such.

Anyhow, after that pointless introduction here are some of my questions. When I'd first installed Fedora, it asked if i wanted to use the firewall capabilities and would ask me to check which i could use such as 'www' 'ftp' 'telnet' and so on. Well, i selected to use the firewall but now I've changed my mind and want to go back to using no firewall. How do i get to that screen and make that selection?

Secondly, is there a way to do filesharing with my computer using Windows XP over the network? For example if I have a directory shared on my Windows comp, is there a way to access it from the linux computer and vice versa?

Thirdly, i was wondering which BitTorrent client is best to use on linux. Ive tried bitTornado on text through the terminal and was wondering if there was a more visually and functionally appealing way to use it. Thanks for all the help and sorry if all of this is covered in the documentation.

[happybunny]

i can help you with 2 of those questions:

"service iptables stop " command will temporarily stop the firewall...

"chkconfig iptables off " will permantly shut it off....even during a reboot

from "Start" menu----go to System Tools, Security level to re-configure the firewall.

1 note...you realize this is to configure the incoming traffic, not outgoing?


As far as file sharing....Samba is your tool

from command line linux:

mkdir whatever
mount -t smbfs //xpmachine/share whatever

will mount the xp share onto the linux box.

Do a search for smb on this forum to find more info about sharing the other way.

Basically you need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf with some things.

[eazhar]

thanks, after changing the firewall settings suddenly my linux comp could recognize the other computers on my network, which it could not (well, was not) do(ing) before. So i didn't bother with the mounting suggestion with samba.

Another thing i was wondering was if there was a way to set up copy/paste from the keyboard on the command prompt. It is getting quite annoying to have to right-click and select paste rather than just ctrl-v.

[Loki3]

Although you have a received an excellent answer from happybunny, I recommend that you do not post unrelated questions in the same thread. Furthermore I also recommend that you use a thread title that describes your question in detail. Please look at the Just Linux posting guidelines that are linked in my signature at the bottom of this post. Also of intrest might be the "How to ask questions the smart way". Moderator's may feel it's necessary to lock this thread because of the above violations of the posting guidelines, if this happens, please do not take it personally and re-post your questions while adhearing the posting guidelines. We're just trying to keep things running smoothly here.

Moving on! :rolleyes:

In Mandrake 10, Konqueror has support for browsing samba(of netbios) shares built in. Try typing 'smb:/' without the quotes into the URL bar and see if that brings up your Windows shares.