The windows firewall is off. I depend on the router's firewall. I have
made some progress - I think. On the linux side the network window shows
icons for all machines on the LAN. Also it show an icon for "Window
network". If I open the window network I see all machines in my windows
work group. If I open a machine icon I get a logon dialog but I have no
accounts on those machines so I don't expect to connect.  I still can
ping. I to now say "unreachable from my IP". And the linux disked I
shared via samba still does not show up on the windows side. I expected
it to show up under "windows network". I turned ip6tables and iptables
back on.

Thanks for your response!
Mike


On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 13:53 -0800, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> Mike,
> 
>  If you have disabled iptables and can't ping a neighbour host the problem is 
> not iptables but the Windows firewall, by default pings are disabled on 
> windows boxes. You either have to open the ICMP protocol on the win firewall 
> || disable it altogheter.
> 
>  I wouldn't disable iptables. The default iptables configuration on F11 
> allows me to smbclient any host on my work unless those win boxes have 
> firewall enabled.
> 
> Regards
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > Sent: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:49:06 -0600
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: New to Fedora, Network Issues.
> > 
> > Bruno,
> > 
> > I disabled the Firewall and iptables and ip6tables.  Now when I select
> > "Places/Network/Windows Network" I no longer get the "failed to
> > retrieve..." message but now I see an empty window, no PCs show. Ping
> > still fails. I have never before ran the linux firewall. I always just
> > depended on the firewall in the router.
> > 
> > Thanks Mike
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 13:33 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 12:20:53 -0600,
> >>   Mike Adolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> When I go to "Places-> Network" I see the Windows Network icon. When
> >>> activating it I get "Failed to retrieve share list from server". I can
> >>> not ping any other machine. No PC can see the Linux machine but PCs can
> >>> see each other. I did get the printer to work after a driver install
> >>> and
> >>> mail and internet are fine. My linux machine is a wired connection to
> >>> the router, device eth0. The PCs are wireless. Network Configuration
> >>> tool also shows a ethernet hardware device pan0 that I know nothing
> >>> about.
> >> 
> >> My first though is that the firewall needs to be adjusted. Try
> >> temorarily
> >> turning off the firewall (service iptables stop) and retest. If that
> >> fixes things, you'll want to adjust your firewall rules.
> > 
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