[BUGS] Integration of PCBSD with Windows networks

[Rob Hurle]

Hi Matti,

  Thanks for that.  I'll check it out.  I tried Jan's suggestion about
port 445 and found that it was only open for incoming TCP.  Opening
that for incoming, outgoing and UDP as well made the system work for
Windows XP, however the Vista system failed to connect.  I'll need to
check this again since the XP system may have already connected before
I made the change.  Seems very complicated - seems that M$ is not
being as cooperative as they could be.

Cheers,
Rob

On 15 July 2010 22:23, matti k <matti.k at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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