Samba and firewall:
The problem is in the SMB and NMB services it runs. It deny's packetes that were broadcasted from itself from these ports (137:138) and IP 192.168.0.1 an coming back to 192.168.0.255
yes. thats because it thinks there´s someone IP spoofing it´s address ... in 2.0, which will be out by begin of next week (as an official rpm), these logmessages will only be seen by people who set "FW_LOG_DENY_ALL" ...
I got another problem with this stuff: the samba server 2.05a (this is also the SUSE 6.3 firewall with update) takes sometimes a deep breath and does not respond to one ore more clients for seconds or even minutes. I haven´t found the reason jet, but my log shows 'martians' and 'denied packets' too.
how can anybody help you if you don´t post the deny log entries? Greets, Marc -- Marc Heuse, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg E@mail: marc@suse.de Function: Security Support & Auditing "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~marc/marc.pgp | pgp -fka" Key fingerprint = B5 07 B6 4E 9C EF 27 EE 16 D9 70 D4 87 B5 63 6C