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Why is the Firewall Tab Inside Sharing?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Can anyone explain to me the rationale for placing the Firewall preferences pane inside of Sharing? For the life of me, I cannot comprehend why it should be located there. The Firewall has little to do with sharing. Here are some better places for it, IMO:
1) Network Pane
2) Security Pane
Either of those locations would make infinitely more sense. And yes, I do realize this is a minor issue, but it matters to me.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
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Well.. sharing and the software firewall are all related to the service ports. (i.e. port 80 for web server).
Since the Service tab is under the Sharing..it would be easier for users to get into the firewall part next to it.
[correct me if I was wrong]
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Victoria, Australia
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I agree it should be elsewhere. With a button to take you there from Sharing perhaps - in the same way Date and Time has a connection to International for setting date and time formats.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: columbus, oh
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I would think it would be under Security for obvious reasons but hey only Apple really knows.
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"Another classic science-fiction show cancelled before its time" ~ Bender
15.2" PowerBook 1.25GHz, 80GB HD, 768MB RAM, SuperDrive
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Earth
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I think it's there for the reason Kenneth describes. But it's defintely a BAD reason, and should be somewhere else... Noone will ever think about going to Sharing to find the firewall prefs...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: France
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I'm sure lots of people are missing this feature simply because it's that deep inside System Preferences.
I would like to see it as a pref on it's own.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
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Let's see how Microsoft handle the firewall as a reference
BTW... I did a search on FireWire in the Mac Help.. nice to see how Apple approachs it.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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Erm... it's in Sharing because you set there which ports you share. 
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2002
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I believe it should be under Network pane and tied to the location settings. I.e. each "location" can have different firewall settings.
For example, one for being connected to your home network where you would have file sharing, etc ports enabled and one for when you are at a public access point where you would want all ports blocked.
Scott
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