Re: using samba with red hat / fedora firewall on - trouble accessing shares on other comp

From: John Morrison (jmorrison_at_snspix.com)
Date: 11/03/04

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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:18:44 +0000

    On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:20, Gerald Thompson wrote:
    > Hi all;
    >
    > Using Fedora Core 2
    >
    > I am having some trouble mounting shares on my windows computer with the
    > red hat firewall turned on.
    >
    > The windows xp computer has no trouble getting through the red hat
    > firewall to the samba shares on my linux box.
    >
    > If I turn off the red hat firewall I am able to access the shares on the
    > win xp computer.
    >
    > I opened these ports in the firewall:
    > 137:udp, 138:udp, 139:tcp, 445:tcp
    >
    > This is exactly what is recommended on the samba.org HowTo manual
    > http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/securing-samba.html#id2544979
    >
    >
    > Also in Windows XP I have the exact same ports opened by default in the
    > windows xp firewall.
    >
    > I am thinking that there is some kind of blocking in the red hat
    > firewall that is preventing me from fully opening the outgoing nmbd
    > request. I guess I am reaching the point where I should learn how to
    > use iptables and just allow the IP of my win xp computer to communicate
    > with the linux computer.
    >
    > Any suggestions, or a port that I should try opening up?

    Hi,

    After making your changes to the firewall did you try service iptables
    restart and service network restart, might as well do service smb
    restart also. I had the same problem and restarting those services
    seemed to have solved it.
    Hope this helps. 

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