IPFW/Samba does not work with WinXP (but with MacOS 10.3)

[Kees Plonsz]

Nicholas Henry wrote on Wednesday 11 May 2005 04:00:

> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Nov  5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
> 
> Hello folks:
> 
> Trying to set rules to let a local network only connection to a Samba
> server running on my FreeBSD machine. I'm a FreeBSD newbie.
> 
> Below is the rules file. The strange thing is this works fine when
> logging into the Samba server from a OS X, but no go with WinXP. I can
> connect to the Samba server from WinXP if the IPFW is not loaded.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

You can check your ipfw rule settings by selecting the log option.
Be shure that "sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.verbose" is set to 1
You can linit the logging by the option "logamount" or by
"sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit"

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