From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look for mention of firewalling or the TCP /UDP ports needed by Samba in the above URL. Actual Results: Information not found. Expected Results: Something that tells me how to configure Samba should also tell me how to permit network requests through the firewall. Additional info: Since RHL 7.1 includes firewalling features, it would be useful if the (Samba) Customization Guide would tell me what extra steps are needed to permit access to Samba resources through the firewall. For example, if I installed a Workstation with a firewall security level setting of high, what TCP or UDP ports should I open to permit access to shared directories or printers? What chapter do I reference to see how to configure the firewall?
This is a very good suggestion. It applies to all the other services, not just SMB. Unfortunately, we do not have enough page count in the manual to add a section to all the services describing what a port is, which ports to open, etc. I will work on a generic chapter describing this procedure for the next release of manuals.