accessing windows resources through firewall

accessing windows resources through firewall

[Shaun T. Erickson]

Scenario:

WinXP client one one side of iptables firewall, cannot access shares on 
samba or Win2k servers on other side of firewall. WinXP client knows 
address of WINS server on other side of firewall. All traffic is allowed 
to be forwarded in either direction, through the firewall, with these rules:

$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $ONRAMP_IFACE -o $DEV_IFACE -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $DEV_IFACE -o $ONRAMP_IFACE -j ACCEPT

Is there anything else that I have to pass/specify/whatever to get this 
to work? It worked before the iptables system was inserted into the 
path. All other traffic is being passed successfully - just windows 
stuff isn't (though they *can* print to printers on the other side of 
the firewall). Nothing is logged when the attempt are made.

	-ste

RE: accessing windows resources through firewall

[Daniel Chemko]

It worked before the iptables system was inserted into the
> path. All other traffic is being passed successfully - just windows
> stuff isn't (though they *can* print to printers on the other side of
> the firewall). Nothing is logged when the attempt are made.

From watching this, it doesn't seem to be a netfilter problem at all.
Are you sure the routes from/to each network are configured properly?

Have you confirmed that you're getting WINS resolution? Is there a
reason you're using WINS over W2K DNS resolution? Still have w9x/NT4?