On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:17:20PM -0600, Larry McMains wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > <title></title> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > <small>With the rules:<br> > <tt>Allow connections from host<br> > 192.168.1.101</tt><br> > and<br> > <tt>Allow Service Port For<br> > Samba(SMB) 137-139 445 192.168.1.101</tt><br> > </small><br> > <small>On the system attempting access, Network Tools, Devices, > Ethernet Interface (eth0), shows it's ipV4 address as 192.168.1.101.<br> > Places > Network usually shows the target system, but double > clicking its icon results in the message "Failed to windows share".<br> Oh, my eyes! What I find puzzling is this: > -A INBOUND -s 192.168.1.101/32 -j ACCEPT > -A INBOUND -s 192.168.1.101/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 137:139 -j ACCEPT > -A INBOUND -s 192.168.1.101/32 -p udp -m udp --dport 137:139 -j ACCEPT > -A INBOUND -s 192.168.1.101/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT > -A INBOUND -s 192.168.1.101/32 -p udp -m udp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT It seems to match that you have both 'allow connections from 192.168.1.101' and 'allow certain ports from 192.168.1.101' enabled in your firewall tool. The first rule says that traffic from 192.168.1.101 should be accepted, so the next four rules seem superfluous. But I'm a bit rusty here, I gave up on raw iptables a few years ago and I'm using Shorewall now. My Shorewall setup says that for Samba you need the following ports: inbound udp 135,445 inbound udp 137:139 inbound udp 1024: source = 137 inbound tcp 135,139,445 If you check your logs, you should find the dropped packets. florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100204/fa80ddc0/attachment.pgp