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

Nicholas Henry nicholas.henry at gmail.com
Wed May 11 08:12:18 PDT 2005


OK - problem solved. Not sure if this was an obvious one or not (ok
probably was) - I added the freebsd machine name and ip to the WinXP
hosts file and it works now.

Cheers,
Nicholas

On 5/11/05, Nicholas Henry <nicholas.henry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes - that's my understanding too. I'm trying to let all local traffic
> (i.e. on the same network) through with this:
> 
> # Allow any traffic to or from my own net.
> ${fwdcmd} 400 pass all from me to ${net}:${mask}
> ${fwdcmd} 500 pass all from ${net}:${mask} to me
> 
> Anyone with any other thoughts?
> 
> On 5/11/05, Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/11/05, Nicholas Henry <nicholas.henry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >  Don't know anything about ipfw, but you need to pass TCP and UDP 135-139
> > for NetBIOS to work, or change network settings in Windows to make it use
> > TCP/UDP port 445 instead.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Juha
>


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