Re: Cannot change security level from HIGH

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:38:58PM -0400, jim wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> My version of lokkit only has high, medium, none and custom as
> options.  In custom, I don't see any optdion for smb.

My apologies.  I thought there was one.

> I tried
> adding smb to the Other section but saw no change in iptables
> generated.
> 
> How do I "open the ports for Samba"?   I also wish to access Apache
> on our lan and it seems to come and go with the iptables file as
> well.

That is correct.

Before we go further

- Please turn off HTML mail.

- Please configure your mailer to wrap lines at about column 72 or
  thereabouts.

I may have missed earlier discussions.  Is your machine on a network
behind a good firewall?  If so, you can just turn off the firewall in
your machine, and the problems are solved.

If not, I recommend you download and install either FireStarter
(GUI-based firewall config tool)

http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/

or gShield, a config-file-based firewall tool

http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html

I use the latter on my household network firewall.  It's easy to use.

See also my piece on security:

http://www.rhil.net/docs/security.html

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
"In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are 
 different." - Larry McVoy