On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:47:14PM +0100, PaulFransen wrote: [ 8< ]
Samba servers are listening to ports 445 and 139 by default. However, most authors recommend to keep firewall port 445 closed, e.g. http://en.opensuse.org/Firewall_on_simple_samba_LAN. Opening this port in the server firewall, or specifying port=139 in the mount.cifs command on the client, does the trick in my situation.
See /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2.d/services/samba-server and I'm happy to say SuSEfirewall uses decent and right defaults. What do we need to make the use of SuSEfirewall easier? The article at en.openSUSE.org offers a lot of input and details but I fear for most users this is not an easy way to use it. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany