[nmglug] samba,

[Ed Brown]

Here's another suggestion: If you are working now to get Samba
configured and running, and your network is not yet connected to the
internet or otherwise at risk, save yourself some aggravation by turning
off iptables until Samba is working as you'd like.  It's so much easier
to get a complicated service like Samba working if you don't have a
firewall to contend with at the same time.

-Ed


On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:59, Mars DeLapp wrote:
> Andres Paglayan wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > Does somebody knows how should I tell iptables to accept samba connections?
>  > It seems I have to open 139/tcp and udp/137/138.
>  > hehe, but how...?
>  > Thx,
> 
> According to my notes from when I set up my Samba server, you need ports 137, 
> 139 and 1046 open.
> 
> I recall having problems with Windows machines being unable to find the server. 
> adding an lmhosts file on each windows machine works but opening port 1046 is 
> easier.
> 
> Gary put a short tutorial on firewalling on the NMGLUG web site at:
> http://www.nmglug.org/tutorials_sysadmin.html#firewalling
> 
> Mars
>