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5.1 Connecting to Your Network
You can connect to a network with wired and wireless connections. To view your net-
work connection status, click Computer. In the Status area of the main menu, the Network
Connections icon shows your network connection status. Click the icon to open the
YaST Network Settings module. You can use this module to configure your network
setup method or to edit your network card configuration.
5.2 General Notes on File Sharing and
Network Browsing
Whether and to which extent you can use file sharing and network browsing on your
machine and in your network highly depends on the network structure and on the con-
figuration of your machine. Before setting up either of them, contact your system ad-
ministrator to make sure that your network structure supports this feature and to check
whether your company's security policies permit it.
Network browsing, be it SMB browsing for Windows shares or SLP browsing for remote
services, relies heavily on the machine's ability to send broadcast messages to all clients
in the network. These messages and the clients' replies to them enable your machine to
detect any available shares or services. For broadcasts to work effectively, your machine
must be part of the same subnet as all other machines it is querying. If network browsing
does not work on your machine or the detected shares and services do not mmeet with
your expectations, contact your system administrator to ensure that you are connected
to the appropriate subnet.
To allow network browsing, your machine needs to keep several network ports open
to send and receive network messages that provide details on the network and the
availability of shares and services. The standard SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is
configured for tight security and has a firewall that protects your machine against the
Internet. To adjust the firewall configuration, you would either need to ask your system
administrator to put your interface into the internal zone or to tear down the firewall
entirely (depending on your company's security policy). If you try to browse a network
with a restrictive firewall running on your machine, Nautilus warns you that your secu-
rity restrictions are not allowing it to query the network.
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