This is the second time this question has come up today....
Here is what I told the last guy... derek You are absolutely correct.. The Tiny Firewall in ML8.1 will block Samba connections. You can open up the internal private network quite safely, or if you wish you may open it up only to samba (ports 137-9) There is a nice article on Forum about it http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1467?=en derek On Wednesday 23 January 2002 16:40, Vijay Ramachandran wrote: > Hi. > > I am running 8.1 on my box, and using it as a gateway for my home lan. The > ip address is the one configured automatically from the control-center, > 198.162.0/24. I have a Windows NT box on the lan, and am unable to connect > to the gateway machine (ip address 198.162.0.1). I am able to see the > server name in windows explorer, but when I try to open it, I get "no > network path exists to this server". I am also not able to view this linux > machine using "net view". However, NAT works, as does using smbclient on > the same machine. There are errors like this in the samba log file: > > [2002/01/21 09:03:33, 0] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(62) > yield_connection: tdb_delete failed with error Record does not exist. > > and this from the nmbd.log file: > [2002/01/23 00:06:19, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(776) > Packet send failed to 192.168.0.255(138) ERRNO=Invalid argument > > How do I get over this? > > I remember selecting the "moderate" option for my security - is this > causing samba to be blocked? I can't ping my machine either? If this is the > case, is it ok, security wise, to open up the internal-lan ehternet > interface (eth1 vs. eth0) to all connections from this subnet? How would I > do that using iptables? > > thanks, > Vijay On Wednesday 23 January 2002 20:27, you wrote: > I just enabled a firewall in Mandrake 8.1. I used the firewall wizard under > the Mandrake Control Center in the Security Section. Since I have enabled > this webmin stopped work as did samba. Im am pretty new to firewalls, so im > not really sure what has happened and how to fix it. To give you more > detail when I try to connect to webmin I just get a time out, and as far as > samba I cant even see the Linux box on Network Neighborhood anymore. > > Thanks, > > Ira
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