Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> I have samba all set up and working, I can still view home dir etc from >> my XP machines and I can see the printer on the linux machine from XP >> but it says unable to connect (printer is turned on of course) >> > > SUSE runs a firewall by default which blocks incoming connections. Which > ports are used for samba printing? For windows filesharing open up ports > 137-139 for both tcp and udp in yast if they aren't open already. On top > of that, share browsing needs further pass rules which make the firewall > just about not worth having. You could temporarily disable the firewall > to see if that is the problem. > > Volker > > I tried with the suse firewall off and still no go. If to make it go I would have to open up a whole lot of ports and rules to make firewall ineffective then maybe I will flag the need to havethis printer networked and just use it as local as I have another printer on xp maxhine anyway.
Regards Reg
