iptables stopping samba?

[Anthony M. Rasat]

Knute Johnson wrote:
>I've got a funny problem with iptables and samba.  
>If I stop iptables 
the smbclient works just fine.  If I enable it, 
>even with 137,138,139 
and port 445 open 
>for both udp and tcp 
>the smbclient reports;
>
>Connection to ??? failed (Error 
>NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
>
>Is there another port I need to open?  Any ideas 
>greatly appreciated.

Try lsof apps to see yourself whatever application listening on whatever interface. I think lsof is by default installed in Hardy and Intrepid.

sudo lsof -P -i -n

Most of the times - back when I haven't met Easy Firewall Generator (you can use it online from http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/) - I realised it was me making lots of firewall syntax mistakes instead of giving the wrong port numbers.
Now usually I use Easy Firewall Generator to create near perfect iptables script and left me finetuned any additional rule. It was heavily commented so I guess it live up its name.
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