can i have more details on this?? <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Nasimul Haque <<a href="mailto:nasim.haque@gmail.com">nasim.haque@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> By default, firewall is turned off in Ubuntu. But at the moment you installed Firestarter, you've enabled the firewall. So, you need open up the ports manually in the Firestarter. In the Policy tab of Firestarter right click in the Allow service and Add rule. To share files you need a user account to the remote Linux. Nasim <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Sameeul ` Bashir <<a href="mailto:sameeul@gmail.com">sameeul@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Sameeul ` Bashir <<a href="mailto:sameeul@gmail.com">sameeul@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> hi there! >> i hav just managed my 3 other roommates to switch to ubuntu from >> windows.everything is now fine but got one prob. >> all 4 pc in the room are networked ( star connected) . i did the network >> settings ( manual configuration), we can ping each other but cant browse the >> network or cant share any files! >> >> hape anybody can help! >> >> thanks in advance >> >> Sameeul Bashir > > > one more thing! > > i installed firestarter to share internet connection and did the same as omi > vai mentioned in his blog. but it only works when i kepp running firestarter > and aslo make the firewall disable. > after some period firestarter seems to automatically turn on and my browser > losses conection. > > Sameeul Bashir > > </div></div>> -- > ubuntu-bd mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd</a> > > -- M. Nasimul Haque, M.Sc.(SUST) Wessex Institute of Technology Southampton, UK -- ubuntu-bd mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd</a> </blockquote></div>