Description of problem: In the default fedora installation all the UDP traffic is blocked by the iptables. This prevents the netbios name resolution. The generated iptables rules must contain at least the following: -A INPUT -m udp -p udp --sport 137 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT or the user can't resolve the names of the windows machines, neither the windows machines can resolve his name. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This is essentially the same problem as bug 444427, so I'm going to dup it to that. The quick summary is that we need a smarter system-wide way to open and close ports, and that this is not anaconda's business. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444427 ***