Description of problem: mate-user-share and gnome-user share don't work if firewalld is enabled Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firewalld-0.3.5-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enable gnome-user-share or mate-user-share 2.try toconnect to shared public folders 3. Actual results: no connection to shared Public folders Expected results: to be able to share files Additional info: see also bug 1013385
To be able to change this we need to know what ports are the mate-user-share & gnome-user-share using. From bug #1013385, comment #17 and bug #179187, comment #23 it seems that it's not any pre-defined port but a random port (from range 32768-65535), in which case we could not do anything with it in firewalld. If the port is randomly selected then the only possibility would be that the application asks (via D-Bus) firewalld to open a port, because only the application know what port it actually listens on - which I think is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336201#c5 about.
This point is not clear to me....one of the advantages of firewalld should have been the opening of ports required by application (especially when they are different) and it should have been working since long ago. Am I wrong??
Well ... yes and no. Yes, firewalld opens appropriate ports based on request from user/application. No, if you expect it to work the same way as firewall on MS Windows, i.e. that it's able to discover *itself* what port the application uses. Firewalld needs this information *either* stored beforehand - that's the concept of services we have, when firewalld knows that http uses 80, so the application/user only tells firewalld to open http service. *Or* the application/user has to tell firewalld what port to actually open. If the application uses random port and doesn't let firewalld know which one, then firewalld can't do anything with it. The only possibility for user in this case is to open whole port range or completely switch firewall off, which are really bad work-arounds. Ideal would be if the application during its start told (via D-Bus) firewalld to open port xyz, which is AFAICT https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336201#c5
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