Installing Samba Client or Windows Domain Membership with firewall

[remi6]

Hi all

Not a question but a how-to. (My contribution to the world of open-source)

When installing Samba-client (or Windows Domain Membership) on Suse 10.x it is not possible to see the shares from Windows or a Samba server. This problem is available on a lot of forums, but the solution not. Finaly I got the solution in a message from duraden on this forum. However it is even a little bit easyer as discribed in his message.

The solutions is: set FW_ALLOW_INCOMING)HIGHPORTS_UDP to netbios-ns.

The way to do this:

- Start Yast
- select System
- select /etc/sysconfig Editor
- select Network
- select Firewall
- select suSEfirewall2
- select FW_ALLOW_INCOMING)HIGHPORTS_UDP
- add netbios-ns to the settings box
- Finish

reboot your machine.

And Samba-Client works!

I tested it on a Suse 10.1, Suse 10.2 and Suse 10.3 Alpha1 installation.

Does anybody know what I changed? This must be saver as turning the firewall off (or placing the interface in the internal zone which is the same as turning the firewall off)

Has anybody here the possibility to report this to the Suse Firewall developers?

Have fun.

[remi6]

Hi I finally found out the above settings are no safe for computers not protected from the internet. You better use wins server. 1 computer should be the wins server and in the client machine the /etc/samba/smb.conf "global" should contain "wins server = <ip adres of wins server>" or "wins server = <host name of wins server>"