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Restricting Samba access on SuSE 10.1 to one IP

By jeltsch on Mon, 08/14/2006 - 19:54

When you allow Samba access to your SuSE 10.1 machine by using the YaST firewall setup tool, three changes are made to /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2:

  1. FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="" is changed into FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="microsoft-ds netbios-ssn"
  2. FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="" is changed into FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="netbios-dgm netbios-ns"
  3. FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_EXT="" is changed into FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_EXT="netbios-ns netbios-dgm"

The respective portnumbers for the serveices are: