[Samba] iptables protection and broadcasts

Christoph Scheeder christoph.scheeder at scheeder.de
Thu Sep 23 07:33:31 GMT 2004


Hi,

Michal Kurowski schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> It's a basic firewall question I guess. Perhaps someone of you has
> seen it.
> 
> I've got I firewall setup meant for my samba server protection.
> The problem is it seems to block all broadcasts.
> 
> The error message:
> 
> [2004/09/22 17:43:47.572148, 0, pid=1505, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] 
> libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756)
>   Packet send failed to 192.168.2.25(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted

This tells you the sending of your packet failed, but bellow you show 
only the part of your firewall for receiving packets. (chain INPUT)
What is in the OUTPUT chain of your firewall?

Christoph


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