SOTL wrote:
On Friday 03 March 2006 10:40 pm, Nick Schmidt wrote:
Hey,
The reason I sent this was because I thought this was more of a common issue than anything else, and, I have seemed to get a more effective response from "flamers" than any other way.
Here is the issue:
YaST Firewall is blocking samba client. I need to know what settings/ports opened/other stuff that need to be changed in order to make this work, short of disabling the firewall.
In general, I was pretty sure that this is something that everybody had to overcome in the first place, but apparently I was wrong
Easy solution
TURN OFF THE FIRE WALL.
Seriously if you have Samba running then the firewall should be on the whole network not just on one computer. So get your self an additional firewall which you place on the incoming line.
There is no reason why a computer cannot have it's own firewall, in addition to a network firewall. In fact, in some situations it may be desirable to even necessary to do so. The SUSE firewall, like many others can be configured to allow access to any desired protocol. The SUSE firewall config already specifies several commonly used protocols, including Samba and if that isn't enough, you can even specify individual TCP & UDP ports. Rembember, security is a many layered thing. The more barriers you put up, the harder it is for an intruder to succeed.