[luau] samba spanking
R. Scott Belford
sctinc at flex.com
Wed Sep 11 13:34:01 PDT 2002
MonMotha wrote:
> R. Scott Belford wrote:
>
>> Firewall. Did I mention that I had monmotha's firewall on the 7.2
>> boxes? I
>> had enabled port 139, but, no go. Just a little while a go I decided to
>> flush the chains .... I was suddenly able to browse the shares,
>> from everywhere.
>
>
> NetBIOS name resolution works by using broadcast. This means that you
> will need to allow udp port 138 (I believe, whatever netbios-ns is)
> from 255.255.255.255 if general broadcast is used (as opposed to the
> subnet broadcast, the last address in the subnet, which is included in
> your INTERNAL_LAN setting). This poses a problem similar to DHCP.
>
> Run my script, then "iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 138 -i <lan
> interface> -s 255.255.255.255 -j ACCEPT" should fix the problem.
>
> --MonMotha
Reading what I wrote, it almost sounds like flushing the tables fixed my
problem. This only alleviated my ignorance of setting up the tables
properly. I had added port 139. Now I understand about port 138.
Thanks for the knowledge.
scott
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