On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, ala_frosty wrote: > 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.
Log on as 'root'. Run: 'iptables -L -vn' This will tell you if you have any iptables rules in place. To find which start-up script starts a firewall on your system: cd /etc/rc.d/init.d grep iptables * If the script is called 'firewall' you can turn it off by: /etc/rc.d/init.d/firewall stop Also, be aware that your tcp_wrappers may be part of the problem too. So check the contents of: /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny > 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. How much documentation on samba could there be before people will just stop reading ti altogether? It is difficult enough to get folks to read what is there now. :) > 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. The above might help. - John T. > > 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 > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba