New to Fedora, Network Issues.

[Mike Adolf]

The windows firewall is off. I depend on the router's firewall. I have
made some progress - I think. On the linux side the network window shows
icons for all machines on the LAN. Also it show an icon for "Window
network". If I open the window network I see all machines in my windows
work group. If I open a machine icon I get a logon dialog but I have no
accounts on those machines so I don't expect to connect.  I still can
ping. I to now say "unreachable from my IP". And the linux disked I
shared via samba still does not show up on the windows side. I expected
it to show up under "windows network". I turned ip6tables and iptables
back on.

Thanks for your response!
Mike


On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 13:53 -0800, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> Mike,
> 
>  If you have disabled iptables and can't ping a neighbour host the problem is not iptables but the Windows firewall, by default pings are disabled on windows boxes. You either have to open the ICMP protocol on the win firewall || disable it altogheter.
> 
>  I wouldn't disable iptables. The default iptables configuration on F11 allows me to smbclient any host on my work unless those win boxes have firewall enabled.
> 
> Regards
> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mlnx at mho.com
> > Sent: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:49:06 -0600
> > To: bruno at wolff.to
> > Subject: Re: New to Fedora, Network Issues.
> > 
> > Bruno,
> > 
> > I disabled the Firewall and iptables and ip6tables.  Now when I select
> > "Places/Network/Windows Network" I no longer get the "failed to
> > retrieve..." message but now I see an empty window, no PCs show. Ping
> > still fails. I have never before ran the linux firewall. I always just
> > depended on the firewall in the router.
> > 
> > Thanks Mike
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 13:33 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 12:20:53 -0600,
> >>   Mike Adolf <mlnx at mho.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> When I go to "Places-> Network" I see the Windows Network icon. When
> >>> activating it I get "Failed to retrieve share list from server". I can
> >>> not ping any other machine. No PC can see the Linux machine but PCs can
> >>> see each other. I did get the printer to work after a driver install
> >>> and
> >>> mail and internet are fine. My linux machine is a wired connection to
> >>> the router, device eth0. The PCs are wireless. Network Configuration
> >>> tool also shows a ethernet hardware device pan0 that I know nothing
> >>> about.
> >> 
> >> My first though is that the firewall needs to be adjusted. Try
> >> temorarily
> >> turning off the firewall (service iptables stop) and retest. If that
> >> fixes things, you'll want to adjust your firewall rules.
> > 
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