iptables rules to allow nautilus samba access

[Bill Tangren]

Will McDonald wrote:
> On 27/07/05, Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to get access to the windows network neighborhood via
>>smb:/// in nautilus. If I turn off iptables, it works just fine. If I
>>turn it back on, it doesn't. Ethereal indicates that the traffic (with
>>iptables turned off) looks like:
> 
> 
> To get SMB/CIFS succesfully through an LVS I forward the following
> ports/protocols...
> 
> 137/udp
> 138/udp
> 139/tcp
> 445/tcp
> 
> And that allows me to succesfully browse to \\${hostname} from a
> windows machine on the network outside the LVS. I imagine firewall
> requirements would be similar.
> 
> Are the iptables rules you posted actually applied on the Samba server
> itself or something in between?
> 
> Will.
> 

They are applied on the samba server. I can get to the samba server from 
a Windoze box. That was never a problem. What IS a problem is getting to 
the Windoze box from the samba box. That's what I am trying to get help 
with.

Bill