[Samba] Re: Firewall IPtables to use the SAMBA server

Jamrock news_jamrock at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 7 19:33:20 GMT 2004


"Eric Nist" <enist at cox.net> wrote in message
news:1076177657.7119.11.camel at localhost.localdomain...
> Hi,
>
> This question is about how to set up the firewall iptables in
> sysconfig?  I have my firewall set to high and have no luck connecting
> to the SAMBA server (a low firewall works fine).  I feel this is because
> the port is being blocked.  I used Lokkit to generate the iptables and
> set the level to high.  I also found on the SAMBA site what ports are
> used, unfortunately I don't know what to add to the iptables file.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Eric

Setting up iptables is a bit off topic.  Here is a link to a site with some
good tutorials.  Please set up iptables in a test environment before setting
it up on your production network.

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