Samba help

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Fri Jan 9 01:15:37 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 02:06, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> dalen wrote:
> > Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm transitioning myself from Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core 1. I had Samba 
> >> working on RH9 for my home network. I haven't gotten there yet with 
> >> Fedora. When I try to access the disk shares from Windows 2000, I see 
> >> the server under the Workgroup in "My Network Places". When I 
> >> double-click on the server icon, I get an error dialog declaring 
> >> "\\Orpheus is not accessible. The network path was not found."
> >>
> >> I'll start looking for a Samba Howto. In the meantime, I thought I 
> >> would see if this error message meant anything specific to anyone on 
> >> the list.
> >>
> > I had a similar problem that turned out to be the firewall.  I opened 
> > ports 137-139,445 in /etc/sysconfig/iptables, restarted iptables, and 
> > the problem went away.
> > 
> 
> Knowing less about iptables than smb.conf and based on what I found in 
> the existing /etc/sysconfig/iptables, I added these two lines:
>  
>                                 -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 tcp -p tcp --dport 445 -j 
> ACCEPT
> 
> Are these the entries I _should_ add to iptables?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Andrew Robinson
> 

You don't have to, and I don't think you should, include the
state-option.
First of all, why restrict on a connection being new, second, this can
possibly stop the session after the first syn-package is sent, other
than that it seems right...

Sturla





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