Shorewall users - Jul 2003 - Windows Cross-subnet browsing

Tom, 
I am using Shorewall 1.4.5 on a Bering 1.2 router and running a mix of linux and
MS boxes on 2 subnets.

Are smb packets dropped as a default policy in ver >1.3.x?
I am unable to browse the MS network. Any suggestions why?

Thanks.

Quoting Godfried Duodu <GDUODU@dot.state.tx.us>:
> Tom, 
> I am using Shorewall 1.4.5 on a Bering 1.2 router and running a mix of
linux
> and MS boxes on 2 subnets. 
> 
> Are smb packets dropped as a default policy in ver >1.3.x?
> I am unable to browse the MS network. Any suggestions why?

Windows browsing does _not_ work across subnets unless you have a WINS server, 
or all systems are part of a ActiveDirectory domain. (Or you have edited 
lmhost on every PC), sinc NetBIOS is broadcast based.

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On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 06:35, Godfried Duodu wrote:
> Tom, 
> I am using Shorewall 1.4.5 on a Bering 1.2 router and running a mix of
linux and MS boxes on 2 subnets.
> 
> Are smb packets dropped as a default policy in ver >1.3.x?
> I am unable to browse the MS network. Any suggestions why?
This has to do with the nature of Windows browsing and has nothing to do
with how your Bering router is configured.

To browse over two subnets, you need at least one WINS server. If there
is a Samba package for Bering (and you have room for it), you can run
Samba on your router as a WINS server and it can serve both subnets.

See http://shorewall.net/myfiles.htm -- I run Samba on my firewall to
enable browsing between my WiFi and loc zones.

-Tom
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