On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:16:12PM -0600, Larry McMains wrote:
> I have two Ubuntu 9.10 systems on a local network provided by a Linksys
> router. I installed Firestarter on one of them and found that, as
> expected, it blocked access for file sharing by the other system.
> However, I tried adding rules to allow connections from the other
> system, and to allow specific service (SMB) requests from the other
> system, both by specific network address and by host name, each rule
> alone and both of them together. All combinations of neither, either, or
> both rules result in the other computer being blocked (if I turn off the
> firewall, access works fine, so the sharing part is set up correctly).
> I'm obviously missing something, any suggestions?
Show us the rules, together with the output of '/sbin/iptables-save' .
Cheers,
florin
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