Believe it or not, there are valid reasons why you might want to disable the firewall service on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).\u00a0 For instance, avoiding NCP time-outs on client connections for an OES\/SLES server.\u00a0 If you just want to know how to disable the firewall in most modern incarnations of SLES, read on…<\/p>\n
The examples given here are assuming you are remote to the server.\u00a0 Of course, you could do all of this locally on the console, or adapt my instructions to the gui “Yast2”, but I’m going non-gui here for simplicity.<\/p>\n
First, shell into the box, and Launch the Yast non-gui firewall module: To change to startup setting to “Manually”: Optionally, to stop the service right now if running: To complete the change: To accept and finish: To disable the service at next startup: Optionally, to stop the service right now if running: I hope that helps!\u00a0 Now, if you want to argue about how one should never disable the firewall, drop me a line…<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Believe it or not, there are valid reasons why you might want to disable the firewall service on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).\u00a0 For instance, avoiding NCP time-outs on client connections for an OES\/SLES server.\u00a0 If you just want…su<\/code> to root<\/code>.<\/p>\nMethod 1:<\/h3>\n
\nyast firewall<\/code><\/p>\n
\n“Alt + m<\/code>”<\/p>\n
\n“Alt + t<\/code>”<\/p>\n
\n“Alt + n<\/code>”<\/p>\n
\n“Alt + a<\/code>”<\/p>\nMethod 2:<\/h3>\n
\nchkconfig SuSEfirewall2_setup off<\/code><\/p>\n
\nrcSuSEfirewall2 stop<\/code><\/p>\n
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