Samba-Client blocked by firewall

[Philippe Bertin]

Hannes,

Your problem continues to intrigue me. Can you eventually connect with 
your Linux client by hard-coding your share's server's IP address ? This 
would at least exclude the possibility of naming services (DNS/WINS) not 
functioning properly because of your firewall.

Kind regards,

PhB

Hannes Lück wrote:

>Hey PhB,
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>I'm using yast to configure my firewall. In the firewall modul of yast I 
>opened the ports 137 138 193 (tcp and udp) in the "extern zone" and 
>in "demilitarized zone". Unfortunately the firewall still blocks the 
>samba-client. Is it maybe possible to reset the firewall back to the standard 
>settings? Maybe this could help.
>
>Greetings,
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>Hannes
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>Am Samstag, 7. April 2007 schrieben Sie:
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>>Hannes,
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>>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.
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>>Or in the other case, which firewall technology are you using ? iptables
>>? In that case, how does your script look like ?
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>>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
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>>Hannes Lück wrote:
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>>>Hello,
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>>>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.
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>>>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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