Firewall settings in OSX10.5.6

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I am setting up a studio of 40 new Macs and can't find anything relating to setting up the Leopard firewall. All users will have Standard (mobile) accounts on Active Directory domains, and will be using the Adobe CS4/VMFusion with XP/Office 2007. If I have the firewall on 'Set access for specific services and applications' will it block the applications and prompt for an admin password?
Can anyone suggest a reliable setting for the built-in firewall?

Any help greatly appreciated!
 
I gave up on the Leopard Firewall since it moved from the Unix like IPFW firewall (that is still in OS X and is still free) and it is called NoobProof. If you are geeky and super secrete squirrel then go for it's larger more complex brother WaterRoof. The Leopard firewall IMHO is just to simple and is not very good for complex tasks.
 
thanks for your repsonses, guys

I'll give the noobproof a go.

My initial problems were caused by Suitcase Fusion which persisted with attempting to make connections thru the network despite having permissions set up to do so. The team at Extensis have acknowledged this is a problem with the recent version.
I think the best setting, is to leave the firewall to allow only essential services, leaving the application firewall list a miss.
 
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