On Saturday 26 April 2008 16:34, Robert Spangler wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008 10:19, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 April 2008 14:29, Robert Spangler wrote:
> > > > > > This is a firewall issue. If I turn off the firewall
> > > > everything > > works. NFS and SMB are marked as trusted services,
> > > > but it seems that > > is not enough. Which ports need to be opened
> > > > to use these services? I > > googled and followed that advice, which
> > > > didn't work, so now I have to > > ask here.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-March/msg02366.html
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm - I had opened 111 and 4000-4004, but it seems that they may
> > > > be the wrong ones. OTOH, this is a huge list. Do I need all these
> > > > open?
> > >
> > > First where are you trying to access this machine from? Local LAN or
> > > the Internet? If it is local LAN then why not trust the machine that
> > > is trying to connect instread of opening a bunch of ports? That is
> > > how I do things at home. Local machines are trusted so they can
> > > connect anytime on any port.
> >
> > That would be a sensible solution, but how do you set that up?
>
> Are you using some sort of GUI to control your firewall or are you editing
> the firewall file by hand?
>
> If you are using a GUI then check out how you can allow ip addresses.
>
I was using system-config-firewall, but it only offers 'Trusted Services'
and 'Other Ports'.
> If you are editing the firewall file by hand (how I do it) then just add
> the add something like the following:
>
> -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
>
> Here is a great tutorial for IPTABLES
>
> http://iptables.rlworkman.net/chunkyhtml/index.html
OK, thanks.
Anne
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