IPFW/Samba does not work with WinXP (but with MacOS 10.3)

[Juha Saarinen]

On 5/11/05, Nicholas Henry <nicholas.henry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
> 
> Hello folks:
> 
> Trying to set rules to let a local network only connection to a Samba
> server running on my FreeBSD machine. I'm a FreeBSD newbie.
> 
> Below is the rules file. The strange thing is this works fine when
> logging into the Samba server from a OS X, but no go with WinXP. I can
> connect to the Samba server from WinXP if the IPFW is not loaded.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
Don't know anything about ipfw, but you need to pass TCP and UDP 135-139 for 
NetBIOS to work, or change network settings in Windows to make it use 
TCP/UDP port 445 instead.

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Juha