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. -- John Morrison SNS Group 15 Fitzroy Place Glasgow. G3 7RW E: jmorrison@xxxxxxxxxx T: 0141 2213602 F: 0141 2213595
