Thanks Joel, I think you are correct, in order to successfully run Samba on Redhat 8.0, one needs to know what's going on with iptables, and probably a bunch of "other stuff" that I don't know yet. Here's hoping that someone else on this list has had some experience with this sort of thing, and knows how to get the security to let the packets through.
I guess I shall have to offer a documentation suggestion when I get this running finally. Someone somewhere needs to note that Samba will not work if there is firewall software in place preventing packets getting to smbd or nmbd. I haven't read _anything_ _anywhere_ that even hinted that something else on the system might be able to prevent the packet transmission to samba, but that's definitely what is happening. Maybe even add commentary to "the tests" that indicate if these are the characteristics you are experiencing, while Samba is running, then your networked machines can't see the shares because of a firewall. Oh well, this is probably going to take me another week. I've tried using the Redhat Security Level setting software, but even when I set it to "no firewall protection" Samba still doesn't work. Cheers, Stephen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joel Hammer Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:08 PM To: ala_frosty; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] re: Samba up, but not listening I think you will have to learn about iptables. Redhat may keep many of these ports closed by default for security. Linux is not noted for instant gratification. Be prepared to learn a lot. Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
