[NTLUG:Discuss] samba problem

[Fred]

I have a mixed Win9x/Linux LAN and have noticed that SAMBA doesn't work
anymore. I spend most of my time on the Linux box, so I rarely try to use the
shared folder or Linux printer access from Windows. I suspect that the problem
has to do with the ipchains ruleset, but I am just not sure.

main.local (linux box) is the gateway, dude.local (linux box) is turned off
most of the time and eric.local is win9x. The rules are:
# ipchains -L
Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
Chain forward (policy MASQ):
target     prot opt     source                destination           ports
MASQ       all  ------  eric.local           anywhere            n/a
MASQ       all  ------  dude.local         anywhere            n/a
MASQ       all  ------  anywhere          eric.local             n/a
MASQ       all  ------  anywhere          dude.local           n/a
Chain output (policy ACCEPT):

Also (when dialed up to net):
# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
(isp info here) *               255.255.255.255       UH    0      0        0  
ppp0
192.168.1.0     *              255.255.255.0          U       0      0        0
  eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0                  U      0      0     
  0   lo
default         (isp info here) 0.0.0.0                   UG    0      0       
0   ppp0


Obviously the LAN is wide open. Does the "protocol all" treat all packets from
the win9x box as MASQ forwards and just drop them? Or is this just a red
herring?

I know that when I was running Mdk8.0 I had samba and shorewall running and
everything worked ok. Now that I am running Mdk9.0 (with ipchains and no
shorewall) I am not sure what is going on, except that the win9x box shows eric
and main in Network Neighborhood but times out when I click on main... like, it
knows main is there but cannot talk to it. (dude isn't there 'cuz it's turned
off)

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Fred

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