Allow incoming/outgoing ports on iptables

2012-11-27 2 min read Fedora
Schematic for the packet flow paths through Li...
Schematic for the packet flow paths through Linux networking and Xtables (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Last couple of years, I just used to disable iptables on my system, this time I decided not to disable it and keep it enabled.

So far so good, now comes the tricky part, I have http server enabled on my system and since this is on local network with already firewall and other security in place so I can allow all incoming to my system and similarly I need to enable XDMCP outgoing. So, I can add the rules like this :

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browsing the windows machines and their shares – listing

2011-04-30 1 min read Learning Uncategorized

 

smbtree is a very nice command to check all the machines that are present in the LAN (your connected network). For this to work you may need to look at this article also.

 

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