Help with RedHat firewall open ports
 

Hello,

Can someone tell me how to open port 139 from the redhat 9 firewall?
What command should i write so that i can open this port? I need to access some samba shares, but i cannot open port 139 for access. When i do a scan it says that port 139 is closed.

thanks.

As root:

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT

If this system is accessible to the internet, you should only allow ip address(es) that need access (allowing public access to Samba shares is a really bad idea). So can use this as a template, just subsitute in the appropriate IP address or network subnets:

iptables -I INPUT -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT


--EDIT--

Once you get it working, save your ruleset so that it will remain after a reboot:

service iptables save

Thanks for the reply
 

Thanks,

I know that it's a bad idea to shere samba over internet. Right now i dropped the samba thing. I'm going with vsftp it's much more reliable.

Again thanks.

Linux6574.