Re: [Sheflug] Firewall blocks SMB from windows to Linux Samba despiteport 139 listed in firewall settings

[Jim Jackson <jj [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Chris Johnson wrote:

> I've set up a cron to copy files from our main server (NT) to our
> backup/mail server (SuSE 9) via an smb client.  This works fine.  Winclient
> PCs can see the nt4 server.  The linux box can see the NT 4 server.  But
> with the linux firewall turned on the winclients can't see the linux server.
> When I had the firewall (the one shipped with SuSE 9) turned on I also added
> ports 137,138 and 139 to be permitted but winclients still couldn't see the
> linux box.  Turning off the linux firewall makes it visible to the windows
> PCs.
> With the firewall on I can see the Linux shares from the linux box (using
> konquerer and smb://linuxservr/share) but I need to enter a password for
> every directory I browse into with the firewall on but its OK with it off!
>
> What else should I have permitted inthe firewall to allow the win clients to
> access the linux box via SMB???

open port 445

>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Chris Johnson
> (No not that one, the other one!)
> (running SUSE 9, 512MB PIII 600 (ish))
>
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