SAMBA

Duane Douglas ddouglas at mindspring.com
Wed Nov 21 08:53:30 GMT 2001


At 03:09 PM 11/21/2001 +0800, Kay Ann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm using SAMBA 2.0.7 and managed to get it fired up and share between my 
>Windows environment. I discovered that whenever I enable firewall under 
>lokkit, all my access from Windows to Samba was denied. So I got to set 
>'No' firewall to allow access.
>
>I wanted to enable my firewall, pls advise me what should I do. Using 
>IPchain?

i'm using ipchains.  but, whether to use it is your decision.

>If yes, how?

smb runs on tcp ports 137, 138 and 139.  you need to set rules to allow 
access on these ports. check out the linuxdoc ipchains howto for more info: 
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html>

hth
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