Samba help

[dalen]

Bevan C. Bennett wrote:

> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Those first 6 rules could be rewritten as two:
>> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 
>> 137:139 -j ACCEPT
>> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 
>> 137:139 -j ACCEPT
>>
>> Saves space and typing.  ;-)
> 
> 
> And since it's documented that 137 and 138 use UDP and 139 uses TCP, you 
> could save *4* more characters with:
> 
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 137:138 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
> 
> Even if you want to leave the "-m state --state NEW" on the tcp-139 
> line, I'd leave it off of the udp on general principles, and because I 
> know it works that way.
> 
> 
Thanks Rick and Bevan for correcting my buggy firewall rules.  Now I 
have an itch to read the man page and do some more googling as needed:)

Thanks,

Dale