Comments on: Opening Custom Ports in SuSE Firewall

By: musicistabest

musicistabest — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:54:46 +0000

Hello – I have installed the latest version of SUSE Linux as a clean install; the original version (was much older from about 2002) could see the same Windows Workgroup, connect to Win shares and vice-versa.

WIth the new version, I can see the LINUX server appear in my WORKGROUP, but when I try to connect to the shares which I have setup – it asks for user/pass. I try every combination from the ‘root’ password to an admin account password. I turned off the LINUX (and Windows) firewalls. The Shares (on LINUX) are setup in YAST. One XP computer and connect to the Vista computer using shares (and vice-versa); but, when the LINUX/Samba server enters the picture, LINUX reports “Timeout on WORKGROUP” and cannot see the Windows Shares. Again, Windows computers can see the LINUX Shares, but just cannot connect to them regardless of the password/name combos I have tried. The LINUX computer can browse Internet, etc and the router sees the IP/Mac address of the LINUX box. THANKS in advance.
IP is setup correctly – as I mentioned, I can browse the web on the LINUX system and all Windows computers can see (browse) the LINUX shares; they just cannot connect to them and vice-versa.

By: ttocs

ttocs — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:11:08 +0000

Hi linux users, i am having a bit of a problem with my SuSE linux 9.2.
I have a wireless card on my laptop and the ipw-firmware installed on linux. Wireless used to work perfectly without any problem. It used to detect the wireless networks and connect to the open network at university and i was able to use the internet. Now for some reason, i still do get the IP address by DHCP but internet doesn’t work and i cannot ping even the broadcast address. I tried local area network with wired cat5 cable connecting 2 laptops, set the IP manually or automatically by DHCP, i am able to ping but i can’t access the web. I have apache server on linux and connected with windows laptop. I can ping from windows to linux but can’t access the apache using 192.168.0.1/htdocs/myproject

Please guide me where i am going wrong.

Thanks

By: everydayGuitarist

everydayGuitarist — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:39:52 +0000

Server and client are both Suse Enterprise Server 9. The “client” server has correctly established a tunnel (i.e. both server and client have tun0 interface with an address. They just can’t ping each other.

I’ve disabled the firewall (iptables) so that’s not getting in the way. Any ideas?

By: che-che

che-che — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:36:49 +0000

What I’m trying to do is set up ssh server on my own computer so I can access it remotely. I’ve had SuSE before and now I switched fo Fedora. I’ve set up SSHD and works on port 2222, router is configured to forward port 22 to port 2222, but it doesn’t work. I’ve tried with Dyndns.org account and accessing by IP. It just doesn’t work. Can anybody help?
Oh and the router that I use is Thomson ST-780.

By: PolishPokeyPimp

PolishPokeyPimp — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:37:34 +0000

Hello,

I’m a Linux newbie crossing over from the Windows world. I just set up a server with SUSE Linux 10.2, SQUID 2.6? (the newest), and DansGuardian for filtering. I’m trying to setup a second NIC for use with the DHCP Server which I’ve installed under YaST. The second NIC connects to a wireless AP which will assign IPs to various laptops which must be filtered. The laptops are getting an IP address, and can browse the web if I turn on ‘masquerading’ at the SUSE firewall. However, they are not filtered. I would like all web requests to forward to port 8080 of Dansguardian, but don’t know how. I figured it should be in the ‘masquerading’ section of the SUSE firewall, but I can’t get it to work. If I put in 10.0.0.150 – port 8080 under the proxy settings on the client, then browsing is filtered. So, everything is in place, but I don’t want to enter the proxy settings and still have it filtered. In other words, all requests should forward to 8080.

Thanks for any help….

By: nothin_nyce1

nothin_nyce1 — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:24:05 +0000

I’m setting up a webserver and need to know what I should use to connect my main server to the 3 storage servers.

Files will need to be able to be seen by apache, and be downloaded by clients, and files must be able to be add through ftp by clients.

Should I use a Switch or a router?

I just want to be sure that, so I don’t spend/waste money on parts that will be useless for my needs.

Each storage Server has it’s own Motherboard with onboard Video/Audio/Lan. They have a single 80gb hard drive for the linux OS, and they have 4 500GB drives for storage.

My Current Setup:

Thats my current setup, UP TO the [??? ROUTER OR SWITCH???], what should go there?

I will be using Linux for the OS, either SUSE or Red Hat, not for sure yet.

Thank You in Advance!
Thank You for the quick reply.

Just two more questions.

The idea of the Dual Port with dual nic cards, sounds like its going to be very interesting, I like it though, seems that it will be nearly hack proof!

Just to make sure it will still work, the storage servers have 4 individual drives connected by sata300 in a JBOD config.

The ftp server I will be using is “Pure FTPd” its open source and works with linux, and seems to be idiot proof as well.

So, just to make sure I’m understanding this right

Use Dual Nic’s One card connects to my router, and the other connects to my switch, which also has all my connections for my storage servers.

Question about a ftp server

Is there any way that if a client uploads a file that starts with “A” it goes to Server 1 Drive 1, and if they upload a file that starts with “G” it goes to Server 2 Drive 7?

ex.
Server 1
abcd — File begins with
1234 — File goes to drive #

Server 2
efgh
5678

See what I want to do, maybe?