On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 12:52 +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > Hello > I've been working on a Samba machine for a while. > Recently, I tried to turn on its firewall. > But my configuration to iptables is flawed somehow -- it is half right > and half wrong. > > Here is what I've done: > - I used system-config-securitylevel to config new ports to open > - I've opened ports 139:tcp, 445:tcp, 137:udp, 138:udp > - I restart the iptables to load up the configs. > > Here is the consequence right now: > - As I reboot my client PC, I cannot connect to samba shared folders -- > unless I stop iptables first > - After I've connected to Samba once, I can connect to Samba as many > time as I want to -- even if I start iptables again. > > I guest one more port or something is responsible for the first > connection to the server. > Does anybody have any idea? > > -- Try turning on logging in iptables, if it's not already. Check /var/log/messages to see what is being dropped, related to your client. Bob...
