Joel wrote:
You might want to try this, though I currently have my firewall turned off on the Linux box.Can it be done?
If not, what do most people do when opening the netBIOS ports for samba (those who use samba, that is)? I assume, even though it only buys a speedbump, most people only open the netBIOS ports to the local net.
Manual editing of /etc/sysconfig/iptables (in spite of system-config-securitylevel warning away from that)?
Incidentally, when adding rules from the shell, I seem to have noticed that you can't specify multiple protocols and multiple ports in the same line like
iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -i eth0 -s 10.5.0.0/22 --destination-port 137:139 -j ACCEPT
Seems that -p All and --destination-port start:end conflict with each other. Am I imagining things?
Windows XP firewall exception for File and Printer Sharing:
TCP 139
TCP 445
UDP 137
UDP 138
I have had the win xp firewall turned on for a while and those are the default port assignments that ms uses for net bios, try opening those ports up on your Linux box and see if that works. I would test it on mine, but it is tied up running a process right now.
Sincerely, Gerald geraldt@xxxxxxxxx
