Hi,

I think you should look at samba, netbios broadcasts will not cross a router
if you dont tell it to do so. So you will not see the workstations in the
browselist. You should if you go to START - RUN ( Windows system ) type in
\\ip-address\share get
a response.

But make sure that the ports are open on the firewall.

Andre Vorster
South Africa

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Schweinoch [mailto:matthias.schweinochepost.de]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 1:21 PM
To: suse-securitysuse.com
Subject: [suse-security] SuSEfirewall 2 configuration (samba)

hi,

i'm sorry if this is not on-topic (i'm not really sure... it's probably more
of a networking than a security question, but it involves firewalls...:-))

i have a private network which has windows and linux machines in it (net A).
one of the machines (R) is attached to another LAN (B), which also has
internet access. R forwards traffic from all machines on net A to B with
suse firewall 2. now net B also has some windows shares that i would like to
access from any machine on net A.

the question is: is it possible to configure suse firewall 2 such that the
shares in net B are visible to machines in net A? my guess would be that R
would have to get the windows shares information from net B ... but i'm not
sure how the windows neighbourhood works.

alternatively, is it possible to configure a samba server on R (visible to A
and B), which also gets the windows shares information from B, so that
machines on A can get to B through R's samba server?

thanks for all the help!

  matthias

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