Samba won't dance [Solved - sort of]

[max]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Friday April 18 2008 9:18:25 am Craig White wrote:
>> I don't use firestarter and haven't looked at it in years.
>>
>> as for ports...
>> netbios-ns      137/tcp                         # NETBIOS Name
>> Service netbios-dgm     138/tcp                         #
>> NETBIOS Datagram Service
>>
>> I saw neither these descriptions (tcp or udp) nor their
>> 137/138 numbers appear in your iptables dump that you sent to
>> the mail list. My deduction that these ports were not included
>> in your firewall listing was simply noting the lack of
>> presence of those ports in your listing.
>>
>> I believe that port 138 is only UDP traffic...don't know if
>> TCP or UDP on port 137. I enable both TCP & UDP for smb
>> traffic.
> 
> OK -- it would be 'interesting' if the Firestarter folks didn't 
> know the above. I've been using it for years for simple 
> firewalling, and it's generally been very reliable. I've 
> configured Samba to work before just using the enable incoming 
> SMB option in Firestarter. If you say the iptables rules that 
> produced weren't sufficient, I'll take that into account if 
> troubles reappear and investigate further. 
> 
Firestarter? what's wrong with the native firewall provided?

Max