Samba & IPTables

["Epps, Aaron M." <Epps.Aaron@xxxxxxxx>]

    Here's my suggestion... 
 When a user configures their server to have Samba start on boot, don't you 
think they'd probably want to open the appropriate ports so that people can 
connect to their Samba Server?  I think that when I uses clicks on the 
checkbox in the Services Config Tool it should prompt the user, asking them if 
they'd like to open the appropriate ports in their firewall for Samba (137-139). 
  Otherwise, if you don't realize that IPTables is what's stopping your 
Samba Server from being available in "Network Neighborhood" you'll have to dig 
around and manually configure iptables, which isn't necessarily the most 
intuitive thing in the world.   This could also be done for similar servers 
that require certain ports to be opened up (SSH, FTP, Apache, Etc...) 
 Thoughts anyone?