Samba What a struggle

[Andrew Robinson]

Chris Botha wrote:
> Dear Fedora users. I am having my days with Fedora setting up Samba. I 
> work according to the manuals and follow the basic instructions but with 
> no hope. It refuses me to access the server.
> 
> The things that I set was : Workgroup, server string, password with 
> unix=yes, etc. Well I cant get it to ask for my password and username to 
> grant me access to the server. Got any suggestions or settings that I 
> should look at?
> 

I had a similar problem when trying to set up Samba. I needed to 
configure iptables to allow smb traffic to my server. Here are the 
settings I have now:

# Samba access
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 137:138 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --sport 137:138 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1512 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 1512 -j ACCEPT

I don't think all of these iptables entries are required to get Samba to 
work. However, this works for me.

Hope this helps.

Andrew Robinson