[plug] SAMBA and firewalls

[chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au]

Oh, never thought about that one, sorry about that.
Thanks for the info though. I thought that would be all SAMBA needed, but
also thought I had better check, just in case.

Chris

> chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au wrote:
>> Could someone please help with what ports I need to allow through a
>> firewall to:
>>
>> 1) Allow the SAMBA server to authenticate against a NT domain controller
>>    (don't ask)
>> 2) Allow users to connect to shares on the SAMBA server
>
> 137,138,139 tcp and udp will work, though I don't think all are used for
> both protocols. You may also need port 445. If you need more specific
> information, I'd be surprised if a google search didn't turn up the
> answer.
>
> BTW, it'd be much appreciated if you could avoid replying to existing
> threads when asking a new question. It stuffs up threaded mail clients
> that track the 'In-Reply-To' and 'References' headers. It's best to
> compose a new message instead.
>
> Craig Ringer
>
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