Re:Samba

[Chris Botha]

> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:02:45 -0800
> From: "Bevan C. Bennett" 
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Samba What a struggle
> Reply-To: [e-mail]
>
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Mi, den 03.03.2004 schrieb Andrew Robinson um 20:51:
> > > # Samba access
> > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 137:138 -j ACCEPT
> > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --sport 137:138 -j ACCEPT
> > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
> > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT
> > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT
> > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1512 -j ACCEPT
> > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 1512 -j ACCEPT
> > >
> > > I don't think all of these iptables entries are required to get Samba to 
> > > work. However, this works for me.
> >
> > .oO Be aware what you open up this way! You are at high risk to open
> > your samba filesharing to the whole internet. Be sure you only open
> > those ports on your local net and not on outbound devices.
>
> Indeed!
> That's pretty much the same set I'm running on my samba PDC (which is 
> behind a firewall), although I can say that you do -not- need the UDP 
> port 445 (445 only uses TCP).
>
> Additionally, I believe you only need 1512 open if this system is the 
> network's WINS server.
>
> --__--__--

Thank you for mentioning this, the word firewall triggered all. I remembered that with my installation I activated my firewall and so that stopped all communication with samba.

I disabled it and vola all worked.

thank you to the Fedora community for your help.

Greetings

Chris