Samba-Client blocked by firewall

[Philippe Bertin]

Hannes,

I have OpenSuSE 10.0, which is a similar configuration. Indeed, looking 
in Yast reveals there's no way to configure the firewall explicitly for 
a samba *client*. I suppose you are using yast to configure your 
firewall ? If so, try enabling for your network interface going on your 
local network (in the 'zone' typically called 'Internal Zone' or 
'Demilitarized Zone' in Yast) via the button called 'Advanced' all TCP 
and UDP ports 137,138 and 139.

Or in the other case, which firewall technology are you using ? iptables 
? In that case, how does your script look like ?

I have to say that I am not convinced this will help, because it seems 
rather bizarre that the SuSE firewall wouldn't even allow connections 
being established even if initiated from the machine itself. Knowing 
(/supposing ?) that the samba servers don't open connections on their 
own initiative towards the clients (only *if* they would, my suggestion 
would help you further, eventually)

Hope this helps,

PhB

Hannes Lück wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've installed openSUSE 10.2 on my computer. In the same network group of my 
>computer are two more computers on witch WinXP is installed. The problem is 
>that I can't access the shares on the WinXP computers from my linux computer.
>
>When I temporary switch of the suse firewall I have access on the WinXp 
>shares. So it's sure that the firewall on my linux computer blocks the 
>samba-client. Unfortunately I don't know how to configure the firewall so 
>that the samba-client would be allowed to connect to other computers. In the 
>firewall modul of yast I may only allow to open connections to the 
>samba-server. I already searched for some help in some German linux forums 
>but until now noone could help me to solve the problem.
>
>I'd be very glad to get some help.
>
>THX
>
>
>Hannes
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