On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:20 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Saturday April 19 2008 11:51:26 am Claude Jones wrote: > > On Saturday April 19 2008 11:23:06 am Craig White wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 09:44 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > > .................snip.................... > > > > > > > 137, 138, 139, and 445... Any other suggestions on what I > > > > should try? > > > > > > ---- > > > indeed...see above > > > > > > it's entirely possible that there is a change from LAN > > > segment to wireless segment in something as inane as the > > > MTU. > > > > I'll take those suggestions and try them when I get home. > > > > To put a possibly new ending on this thread, I mostly have > everything working now. I switched form firestarter to the > Fedora utility, system-config-firewall, the version that's in > rawhide. There was no ambiguity about rules in this GUI. I post > the following for information: > > # iptables --list > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere > reject-with icmp-host-prohibited > > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > > Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (1 references) > target prot opt source destination > ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere > ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp > any > ACCEPT esp -- anywhere anywhere > ACCEPT ah -- anywhere anywhere > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere 224.0.0.251 udp > dpt:mdns > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp > dpt:ipp > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp > dpt:ipp > ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere > state RELATED,ESTABLISHED > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW tcp dpt:domain > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW udp dpt:domain > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW tcp dpt:smtp > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW udp dpt:netbios-ns > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW udp dpt:netbios-dgm > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW tcp dpt:netbios-ssn > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW tcp dpt:microsoft-ds > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW tcp dpt:ssh > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere > state NEW tcp dpt:nfs > REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere > reject-with icmp-host-prohibited > ****************************************************** > The above rule-set is much simpler and clearer than the one > generated by Firestarter. This did not end up fixing the issues > I was having, unfortunately. The final piece in the puzzle was > yielded up by some curious log messages I was getting, and by > some errors I was getting running Konqueror related to DCOP > (from their home page: "DCOP is a simple IPC/RPC mechanism built > to operate over sockets...Each application using DCOP is a > client. They communicate to each other through a DCOP server, > which functions like a traffic director, dispatching > messages/calls to the proper destinations.") The DCOP component > of KDE was somehow getting it's configuration files mangled in > some way, which was having the effect of occasionally locking up > my file-browser window. Running the following > command, "rm /home/cj/.DCOPserver_*__0" and rebooting seemed to > fix it temporarily, but, then I learned there was an issue > related to my problem, that had been fixed in an upcoming > version of some KDE related files, that would become available > soon. I reverted my kdebase to an earlier version after another > lockup occurred, even though I was able to cure it again by > running the above command. Along in there, I also deleted the > two Samba socket options from my samba.conf that Craig suggested > I take out in a previous post in this thread. Those changes > seemed to take care of things. I'm now successfully able to see > all shares on all machines, and mount them, from my Fedora box. > All Windows boxes can see the shared directory and printer on my > Fedora box, and can print to the shared printer. That's lasted > about 18 hours so far... I'm using the utility smbk4 on Fedora > to see my Windows shares and mount them - once mounted, they all > appear in a folder, smbk4, in my home directory, and clicking on > those shares yields up all the shared directories on my Windows > boxes. One other thing I changed along in there was to name the > Fedora box as the domain master and preferred master, and it's > now reliably getting elected as the master browser - this is the > one machine that's always on in my household, so it seemed to > make sense. > > Hope this helps someone - if someone spots any errors in what > I've done, please let me know. ---- makes sense and I notice that the 2 missing ports are now in your firewall rules which has to help. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list