--- Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ports 137, 138 and 139 are the netbios ports. > > But be very careful, these ports are firewalled for > a reason... they > are an invitation for chaos if you have these ports > open to the > world. > > So modify your iptables/ipchains rules to allow > forwarding of > netbios traffic through your firewall, but at the > same time restrict > the source and dest address of this particular > traffic. > > (If you don't know how to use iptables or ipchains, > then you need > some background and this isn't the forum... there > are plenty of > howtos available, a quick google search will get you > the info you > need). >
Thank you for the replies. I'll have to do some research on the iptables issue. All I want to do is share the printer attached to my linux box with my windows laptop and I was hoping I could do this easily in RH 8.0. I was relying on Chapter 16 of the Customization Guide of the RH 8.0 documentation, which states that the default smb.conf file should be enough to connect to your samba shares from a windows computer using the same username and password. It makes no mention of having to configure the firewall to allow samba to function. The documentation should probably be revised a little in this regard. Thanks again for the assistance. Regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
