Hi listers,

I have a Linux machine in a Windoz network, and trying to connect to the server via samba I ran in all sorts of troubles until I found out it's my firewall that wouldn't let me connect to the server.
Shutting down the firewall does solve the problem, but I feel more secure with it on... how can I configure it so that the winsows server's IP (or a range of IPs in a local network) could be trusted?

Any help appreciated,
Adrian

Hi.

To allow samba connections through your firewall you can do this....

iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m multiport --dport 135,136,137,138,139,445 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m multiport --dport 135,136,137,138,139,445 -j ACCEPT

What that does in this case is allows samba connections through my eth0 network card.

You will need both lines, the ports there are the ones that samba uses.

Let me know how you go.
Craig

Are you using the SuSE firewall2?

I've found YAST itself to be fairly unhelpful when configuring this. The firewall itself has quite a bit of flexibility but Yast seems fairly limited as to what it can do with it.

If I remember rightly (booted on Windows at the moment - having problems building my first new kernel ) you can find the main config file in /etc/sysconfig/network. There's a lot of stuff in there to allow you to setup specific services for cards, IP addresses, DMZs, etc. Very handy for me as I have two wireless cards at the moment - one with no routing to the internet but the other with it (among other things).

Once that's edited as you want, just type from a command prompt.