Samba and Firewall
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Mon Mar 7 11:32:13 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 12:52 +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
> Hello
> I've been working on a Samba machine for a while.
> Recently, I tried to turn on its firewall.
> But my configuration to iptables is flawed somehow -- it is half right
> and half wrong.
>
> Here is what I've done:
> - I used system-config-securitylevel to config new ports to open
> - I've opened ports 139:tcp, 445:tcp, 137:udp, 138:udp
> - I restart the iptables to load up the configs.
>
> Here is the consequence right now:
> - As I reboot my client PC, I cannot connect to samba shared folders --
> unless I stop iptables first
> - After I've connected to Samba once, I can connect to Samba as many
> time as I want to -- even if I start iptables again.
>
> I guest one more port or something is responsible for the first
> connection to the server.
> Does anybody have any idea?
>
> --
Try turning on logging in iptables, if it's not already.
Check /var/log/messages to see what is being dropped, related to your
client.
Bob...
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