Firewall Blocking Music Sharing
 

Hey, I've just installed Banshee to share music to my mac, it works fine when the firewall is off, but when I turn it on it the mac still detects the libary, but it will not allow me to view it and just says i need to allow port 3689 on the other machine, which according to nmap, it is already open

suse:~ # nmap localhost

Starting Nmap 4.00 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-05-31 13:26 BST
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
(The 1661 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
111/tcp open rpcbind
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
631/tcp open ipp
3689/tcp open rendezvous
5800/tcp open vnc-http
5801/tcp open vnc-http-1
5900/tcp open vnc
5901/tcp open vnc-1

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.240 seconds

what about UDP?

what does show?

\suse:~ # \iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
suse:~ #

Bump, please help :)

how are the two machines connected,via a router ?

Yea a router, but I dont think it has anything to do with that as it works when the linux machines firewall is turned off.

which firewall are you turning on and off.
Iptables?

I would say that you to look at the firewall rules when it is on and see if there is anything there that would block the port in question if you havn't already done so.

I'm just going through yast and turning it off, i've got all internet traffic allowed

can you do iptables -L when the firewall is turned on and post ?

That proves nothing - to determine whether the firewall is doing its
job or not you'[ll have to run nmap from a REMOTE machine. The
local traffic will go unaffected by iptables.


Cheers,
Tink

Starting Nmap 4.03 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-06-05 00:58 BST
Interesting ports on 192.168.1.65:
(The 1667 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp closed http
113/tcp closed auth
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
5801/tcp open vnc-http-1
5901/tcp open vnc-1
MAC Address: 00:0D:87:18:47:97 (Elitegroup Computer System Co. (ECS))

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 33.006 seconds
iMac:/usr root#

Heres an external one, it doesn't seem to be allowing it, anyone know how I can allow the port?

Now what did iptables -L say at the time that was taken? :}

The thing with ports is that it iptables ISN'T blocking one there
STILL needs to be a process listening on it to get any response.

There's no such thing as an OPEN port as such.


Cheers,
Tink

I see, so how do I fix this?

We still need to see the ruleset when iptables is turned on with
was the firewall off or on when the above command was run?

Sorry that was without the firewall:rolleyes: