I just wanted to post the ipchains rules that allowed nmblookup to work, as well as findsmb. The security ramifications of opening the netbios ports are something I will look into next. But, these rules will allow not only seeing shares from NT clients but samba to act as PDC also.
-A input -p tcp -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0/0 137:139 -j ACCEPT -A input -p udp -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0/0 137:139 -j ACCEPT -A input -p udp -s 192.168.0.0/24 137:139 -d 0/0 1024: -j ACCEPT resulting in (ipchains -L): ACCEPT tcp ------ 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn ACCEPT udp ------ 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn ACCEPT udp ------ 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> 1024:65535 Rich -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
