Samba and Firewall

[Shu Hung (Koala)]

How to turn on logging of iptables?

Koala

Bob Chiodini wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 12:52 +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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>>Hello
>>I've been working on a Samba machine for a while.
>>Recently, I tried to turn on its firewall.
>>But my configuration to iptables is flawed somehow -- it is half right 
>>and half wrong.
>>
>>Here is what I've done:
>> - I used system-config-securitylevel to config new ports to open
>> - I've opened ports   139:tcp, 445:tcp, 137:udp, 138:udp
>> - I restart the iptables to load up the configs.
>>
>>Here is the consequence right now:
>> - As I reboot my client PC, I cannot connect to samba shared folders -- 
>>unless I stop iptables first
>> - After I've connected to Samba once, I can connect to Samba as many 
>>time as I want to -- even if I start iptables again.
>>
>>I guest one more port or something is responsible for the first 
>>connection to the server.
>>Does anybody have any idea?
>>
>>-- 
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>>
>Try turning on logging in iptables, if it's not already.
>Check /var/log/messages to see what is being dropped, related to your
>client.
>
>Bob...
>
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>

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