On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:28:20AM +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:46:56AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:39 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
> > > Claude Jones wrote, On 04/17/2008 08:22 AM:
> > > > On Mon April 14 2008, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > >> It's no longer funny
> > > >>
> > > >> Each release, I hope things improve...they don't
> > > <SNIP>
> > > >
> > > > I can't declare victory. I am now networked, but, I don't feel like I know
> > > > much more about why than I did before. For example, sometime during the
> > > > period after solving the problem of one of my machines on the lan not
> > > > responding to pings, even though it was being elected as the master browser!,
> <snip>
> > > >
> > > > Thank you to everyone who offered help on this problem
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > As it seems that turning off the firewall seems to be all that is needed to
> > > get it going again, then I would suggest doing a tcpdump/wireshark session
> > > tracking everything between the fedora machine and the machine that is
> > > refusing to connect...AS you shut off the firewall and until it works again.
> > >
> > > Then pore over the dump of data until your eyes bleed. (or at least that's
> > > what I would have to do... :)
> > ----
> > or open ports 137 & 138 because that would be significantly easier and
> > according to his firewall listing...they aren't open.
>
> I was just wondering that system-config-network is geared for such kind
> of doubt clearance regarding services-> ports. Just checked it to be
> double sure before commenting, the gui does mentions the ports required
> to be opened for Samba among all the other major system services.
>
> When in doubt, I save my customised iptables file. Recreate it through
> the systems facility and check it manually to see if I am headed in the
> right direction. This solves lots of headaches later on.
>
> Just my advice how I go through such tight corners.
Correction required for the goof up.
I meant system-config-firewall rather than system-config-network.
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