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

[John Morrison]

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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