[NTLUG:Discuss] Any idea why I can't remotely access my smoothwall from a Linux web browser?

[Kevin E. Ivey]

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Wayne Dahl <w.dahl4 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This has been bugging me for some time, but I've found no answer for
>> it.  I have a Smoothwall 3.0 firewall running on a dedicated old
>> computer.  When I attempt to access it for maintenance, etc, from the
>> web interface on a Linux box (I have 3 and it does the same on all 3) it
>> just times out.  However, I can go to my wifes Windows computer and
>> access it just fine.  What gives?  At first, I thought it might just be
>> that it wasn't in my hosts.allow file, but I've made certain it's there.
>>
>> What's even stranger is, it's intermittenly accessible from my Linux
>> boxen....VERY intermittently, as in almost never.  I was actually
>> surprised when I gained access from my Kubuntu desktop once a few months
>> ago, but haven't been able to get back in since.  Now, I can physically
>> log into it ok from the console, but the options from the console (to my
>> knowledge, and, I have to admit, my knowledge is VERY limited on the CLI
>> on this box) are limited.
>>
>> The actual URL to get to the box is
>> http://192.168.0.1:81/cgi-bin/index.cgi with the secure version being
>> https://192.168.0.1:441/cgi-bin/index.cgi.
>>
>> What am I missing here?  I've tried it from Firefox and Konqueror
>> too...neither work.  It almost seems to be a permissions issue, but I'm
>> at a loss as to know what it might be, especially since the Win XP box
>> doesn't seem to have any trouble with it.
>>
>> Wayne

I would start with checking permissions on the affected folders and 
executables.

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