A request for more agressive updates to FC

Tue Jul 27 01:33:58 UTC 2004

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:42:09PM -0400, Steve Brenneis wrote:
> Could you expand on what you mean by GNOME in FC2 SMB being totally
> broken? Symptoms, etc.? I'm interested because that is my impression as
> well. I haven't posted much about that here (avoiding troll branding),
> but I would like to know what you are encountering. Maybe we can fix
> some of them together.

The default firewall blocks responses to SMB queries.  In fact, the
firewall by default doesn't work for any broadcast or multicast based
protocols.  If you stop the iptables service or enter custom iptables
rules SMB browsing should work fine in FC2 GNOME.  See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113918