On Saturday 26 April 2008 14:29, Robert Spangler wrote: > > > > This is a firewall issue. If I turn off the firewall everything > > > > works. NFS and SMB are marked as trusted services, but it seems that > > > > is not enough. Which ports need to be opened to use these services? > > I > > googled and followed that advice, which didn't work, so now I have > > to > > ask here. > > > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-March/msg02366.html > > > > Hmmm - I had opened 111 and 4000-4004, but it seems that they may be the > > wrong ones. OTOH, this is a huge list. Do I need all these open? > > First where are you trying to access this machine from? Local LAN or the > Internet? If it is local LAN then why not trust the machine that is > trying to connect instread of opening a bunch of ports? That is how I do > things at home. Local machines are trusted so they can connect anytime on > any port. That would be a sensible solution, but how do you set that up? Anne