Re: [Firestarter-user] Firestarter On FC 3

[G&T <gin...@sn...>]

Hi Jyoti,

I am having the same trouble that you describe -- a Linux machine running 
FC3 (selinux disabled) on a LAN with other W95, W98, and XP Home/XP Pro 
machines.  When firestarter is NOT running, the linux machine can see and 
connect to shares on all the other machines; and the other machines all see 
and connect to shares on the Linux machine.  After the initial install of 
Firestarter,  I added an inbound policy to accept SMB traffic on ports 
137-139 and 445 (apparently you can't specify protocol such as TCP or UDP 
for a policy; it includes any protocol).  I still could not see shares 
between the Linux box and other machines.  I saw events showing up in 
Firestarter related to Sun-RPC portmap, which appararent is a new protocol 
used newer OS's like XP for communications between hosts,so I tried setting 
up an inbound policy to accept inbound RPC-traffic.  I could not get 
Firestarter to accept "Sun-RPC portmap" as a source; it kept changing it to 
"unknown". I also tried allowing inbound traffic to the specific port that I 
saw in the events log, but the port kept changing everytime I restarted the 
machine.  Finally I tried allowing all inbound traffic from ANY LAN source 
(192.168.0.0/24).  This allowed the Linux machine to see the Windoz machines 
OK, but the Windows machines still can't see the shares on the Linux box, 
although it shows up in Network Computers.  As soon as I stop the 
Firestarter service, everything starts to work OK.

So, Jyoti, you are not alone with this problem, and I have not yet figured 
out how to configure Firestarter to work in the presence of this Sun-RPC 
thing, which I wish I was more familiar with.  Perhaps the Firestarter folks 
on Sourceforge would have a response to this.

cul,

Frank


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jyoti Kumar" <lin...@gm...>
To: <fir...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 3:43 AM
Subject: [Firestarter-user] Firestarter On FC 3


> Hi,
> Firestarter is quite new to me and using this on Fedora Core 3.
> I am facing problem with samba since my LAN clients won't able to
> browse the machine on which firestarter is running.
> I have configured samba properly Since I have done that on Redhat
> Linux 9 without firestarter and LAN clients are able to browse this
> machine.
> The inverse is also true i.e. On FC 3 In network servers, windows
> machine not showing But in case of RH 9, Windows machine is  also
> there.
> I want to use firestarter with samba on Fedora Core 3.
> Any probable solution to change the config of firestarter so that
> samba should work in both ways?
> Need Help?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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