New Member

Bradley J. Bartram bradbartram at wycol.com
Tue Dec 18 14:36:24 EST 2001


I wouldn't be surprised if your firewall rules filtered our the two ports.
That would cause a problem with accessing webmin.

brad


----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: New Member


:
: > Problem1:
: > I installed webmin to work as a web interface for my Samba
configuration,
: > through port 10000, but when I fired it up, it says that the connection
is
: > broken. I tried it with SWAT, through port 901, and it says that the tcp
: > port 901 is not connected. I checked out the /etc/services file, and
swat
: > tcp/901 was there. I went into the xinetd file and did the changes
necessary
: > to make it work. It didn't. I went into the smb.conf file and configured
it
: > from there. But I'm just curious as to what could be the cause of this
: > situation.
:
: Did you check to make sure that your httpd daemon is running?
:
:
: > Problem2:
: > I am able to ping out of my Linux box, but can't ping in. I think it
could
: > be a firewall problem. When I configured the firewall through netconf -
: > Server Tasks - Internet Services - Internet Firewall and Masquerade -
: > Internet - Advanced, the 'Deny ping requests' and 'Deny Traceroute
requests'
: > boxes are always checked. Everytime I unchecked them, they would still
go
: > back to the default checked. I'm assuming there is a bug right there,
that's
: > preventing the other computers to 'see' my Linux machine.
:
: I believe that Mandrake 8.1 is running the 2.4.x kernel.  So you can
: execute the command (at the prompt) and it will give you the exact
: firewall rules that are being used:
:
: /sbin/iptables -nL
:
: you must be root.
:
:
: Dege
:
: Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but
: they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
:
:



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