Oh dear :( I wouldn't expect that from a firewall.
Firewalls tend to do that if the ports are closed!
Cheeky b'stard. I built this PC myself, and there's fcuk all wrong with it!!!Might be an idea to take it back to PC World and get a refund.
I know. Shorewall is a bit more advanced than I'm used to but I'm sure I'll get it working tonight.One of the problems you'll find with a combined gateway/server is that you often want a gateway to have much simpler, stronger rules than you can get away with on the server. Lots of protocols (FTP, SMB, etc.) are quite complex, and can be temperamental (or worse) if not correctly configured.