Exactly. Trust your smb to internal machines only. Continue high firewall for external machines. This is the way my home lan is set.
Regards,
Keith
"jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net> wrote:
>From: "Neil Loffhagen" <neil@c-w-services.co.uk>
>
>> I know I only recently posted the below message, but thought it
>> good top
>> post the solution that I stumbled across. I did another try in the
>> windows network neighbourhood and got a different message, about "No
>> service is operating at the destination network endpoint". Did some
>> browsing on Technet and found this referred to a port issue. So
>> looked
>> at the firewall settings and saw they were set to high. Put them
>> down
>> to no firewall and the windows clients could then see the redhat
>> server. Probably need to increase the settings and just let through
>> the
>> port for smb? Not too sure about that though. Any other thoughts
>> appreciated, but at least I can get things going a bit more now.
>
>You do want to permit the smb ports. I'd EVER so highly recommend
>you do so ONLY for your internal network and nothing else. (I
>leave the "internal machines" wide open here, which considering
>the number and type of people here is no big deal - 2 people
>and a dozen "things" on the network each, give or take a half
>dozen....)
>
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