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> Hi,
>
> I recently dumped my windows machine at home in favour of RedHat9, after
> reading some reviews and trying it out on an older spare PC. Everything
> is fine and I'm loving it so far.
>
> I have one small problem that if I could solve I'd happy, it involves
> samba. I've been searching the new groups and the net for a day or so
> now and trying various fixes... none of which seem to fix my problem.
> Whenever I try to access the Redhat machine from 98 or XP (to laptops
> used for work over a wireless lan) I get 'is not accessible' or some
> other variant of this. Now in my messing around trying to solve this
> I'm convinced that it has something to do with the firewall that comes
> with RH9, because if I disable the firewall everything works fine.
>
> I think I need to enable port 137 for samba to work but I can't seem to
> do this, I've amended iptables to include this I think with....
>
> -A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 137 --syn -j ACCEPT
>
> This is a copy of the previous line with the port changed After I
> restart the network services and check via nmap, the port is not
> reported and being open...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Simon

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