[BUGS] Integration of PCBSD with Windows networks

[matti k]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:32:24 +1000
Rob Hurle <rob1940 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   To the point.  My home setup is a router/wifi connected to a DSL
> modem (we have CAT5 into the house, fibre node just down the road) and
> a number of Windows systems on the home network.  PCBSD out-of-the-box
> can not be seen by the Windows machines.  The smb.conf file is exactly
> the same as the one successfully used on FreeBSD 7.1.  Investigations
> revealed that it was the PCBSD firewall that was causing the trouble,

Hi Rob,

Since PC-BSD uses pf for firewall I'm thinking you could keep an eye on
what the Windows boxes are trying to connect to using tcpdump.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/logging.html

I'm thinking PC-BSD isn't too dissimilar.

Cheers,
Matti