Ordered new Dell laptop, and want Linux as OS, and Windows 10 as a VM.

Sorry for the double post. It locked up when I clicked post. Any way for me to delete the other post?

Dont worry about it Sam.

Now that you have it installed and the firewall enabled if you need any more help please start a new post.

@ Sam Gunn,

It may be better for you to go to Menu > Administration > Software Manager, type "gufw" in Search, to install the graphical/GUI ufw software, in order for easy configuring of the firewall, if needed.

Please refer also to .......

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/mint-cinnamon-first

Some of the tips may not be needed or are too complicated for newbies.

Edited by anorkneemerse, 11 March 2017 - 12:02 AM.

@ Sam Gunn,

 

It may be better for you to go to Menu > Administration > Software Manager, type "gufw" in Search, to install the graphical/GUI ufw software, in order for easy configuring of the firewall, if needed.

 

Please refer also to .......

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/mint-cinnamon-first

Some of the tips may not be needed or are too complicated for newbies.

Isn't the GUI installed by Default, included?

@ pcpunk

No, the GUI is not installed by default. Only the non-GUI ufw firewall program is installed and enabled by default, ...which requires Terminal commands to configure. Please refer to ....... https://www.linux.com/learn/introduction-uncomplicated-firewall-ufw

Edit: ... "is installed and disabled by default"

Edited by anorkneemerse, 11 March 2017 - 07:23 PM.

That's Ubuntu, but ok.

@all:

pcpunk is quite correct. Linux Mints have gufw installed by default, as can be seen from going to Menu and typing in "firewall", an icon of a small brick wall presents itself as "firewall configuration".

@anorkneemerse:

I don't know that anyone has made the time to say

to BC and to the Linux & Unix Section - hope you enjoy your time here.

Wizard

 

sudo ufw enable

Is all thats needed I cant see the OP messing around with firewall configs at this stage of his Linux adventure.

Edited by NickAu, 11 March 2017 - 07:31 PM.

@all:

 

pcpunk is quite correct. Linux Mints have gufw installed by default, as can be seen from going to Menu and typing in "firewall", an icon of a small brick wall presents itself as "firewall configuration".

 

@anorkneemerse:

 

I don't know that anyone has made the time to say

 

to BC and to the Linux & Unix Section - hope you enjoy your time here.

 

Wizard

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Tried that on my LM 17.3, did not get any gufw/brick wall icon. Typing "ufw" and "gufw" on Menu also did not return any result. Ufw is installed by default but not gufw.

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Thank you.

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Edit: ...The others are correct about Gufw being installed by default but disabled in LM 18.

Edited by anorkneemerse, 12 March 2017 - 01:46 AM.

@anorkneemerse:

 

 

Tried that on my LM 17.3, did not get any gufw/brick wall icon. Typing "ufw" and "gufw" on Menu also did not return any result. Ufw is installed by default but not gufw.

 

Your experience is based on the 17 series. I multiboot.

https://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/linux-mint-18-system-settings/

... sheds some light. Since the advent of the 18 series, GUFW is installed by default, not just available in the Repositories.

This applies across all the mainstream DEs (Desktop Environments) of Linux Mint - MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and KDE.

GUFW is not on by default, you have to switch it on, hence searching under firewall or gufw. The Terminal based ufw, and GUI-based GOFW mirror each other, as one would expect and hope.

The following screenshots, from one of my LMs, illustrate.

and

With the second shot, I have pressed the Rules tab, to show that what I set up at Terminal, applies.

NOTE that if you update your 17.3 to 18 using the tutorial LM founder Clem Lefebvre supplied, you will not have GUFW installed by default, gosh knows why not - you will still have to install it and activate it. (I have one of those on board as well, I call it "Sarah Cinnamon Clemmed").

By all means, any questions on Firewalls you have, start a new Topic and we will likely be along to help or hinder, lol.

Unless there is further business from what Sam has published and been informed, this likely wraps up this Topic for now ... Staff will decide.

@NickAu:

 

 

sudo ufw enable

Is all thats needed I cant see the OP messing around with firewall configs at this stage of his Linux adventure.

 

I concur.

Sam has, as advised commenced a new Topic and there likely be more. I look forward to his adventures

Wizard

Edited typo

Edited by wizardfromoz, 12 March 2017 - 12:23 AM.

I think I got the firewall turned on. I saw somewhere about typing some command.