There are a ton (and then some) different screen locks. Which one exactly do you use? If it is simple xlock it is probably something entirely different then what it might be with one of the "modern" contraptions that use seventeen different pseudo-connections through loopback and whatnot to achieve the same. So, which one do you use and how is it configured?

If you are on a home network i'd like to know what you exactly need a (host-based!) firewall for. Set aside the fact that host-based firewalls are nonsense anyway (and i suggest to set up your WLAN-router to do that instead if you need any at all) the firewall is useless probably as your WLAN-router is (i suppose) operating in NAT mode anyway. 224.0.0.x/8 was Microsofts idea for certain network-based services. I cannot say for sure from two packets but most probably this is some M$$ system discovering uPNP services or something such.

I am not a Linux specialist but to turn off services (like the watchdog and the firewall) you probably need some systemctl command to stop the respective services. You may first stop the service and then mask it so that it won't be started again. My suggestion is to restart the server after editing the services since this will immediately make sure that the server comes up in the way you have planned.


Perhaps so.

After some digging into the systemd introduction found here I'd suggest something like:

Code:

systemctl stop ufw.service
systemctl mask ufw.service

but you probably want to check if there are any other services depending on it (i doubt it, but again, i am not a Linux crack), etc..

I hope this helps.

bakunin