Jonathan, Thank you for most helpful answer. I asked earlier, got RTFM replies, have been perusing TFMs and still haven't run across your most necessary hint to poke a hole in firewall. The link you gave was clear and helpful, too. Cheers, Sam On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:28 -0500, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:45:33 +0000, Oded Hassidi <odedh13@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > > > How the hell can I access a Linux share through the Win2k system? > > Can it be done? Is it through SAMBA? If yes how? > > > > I'm a newbie, > > > > Thanks > > > > By the way you can even do it all gui. Add the share with the gui > samba config tool and then activate the services in the Services gui > but here is the real gotcha all the way around with Samba: > > http://fedoranews.org/tchung/samba/ > > Check this out though it is focused on sharing out a printer. > > The part that is crucial is the iptables part. > > You can easily with no issues and little hassle set samba up but you > got leave a hole in the firewall or you are going to have no joy. > > 3. Configure iptables - Add following rules to your iptables to accept > NETBIOS session service from Windows. > > $ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT > > $ sudo /sbin/service iptables restart >
