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Re: Help: Networking/samba woes



I just realized that you said you were using potato, my mistake. My
previous solution was a small bash script containing the following

ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

that should work a little better

-Mark

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 21:12, Larry Smith wrote:
> Ouch ... shorewall won't install, needs iptables.  
> 
> An apt-get on iptables indcates no such package.
> 
> This is how it's been going on this network work
> stuff.
> 
> 
> --- Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:30, Larry Smith wrote:
> > > I'm having a devil of a time getting my Debian
> > network
> > > all set up properly.
> > > 
> > > I'm using Potato.
> > > I have a local net using a RedHat server (it's
> > been
> > > running for a couple of years, don't suspect
> > problems
> > > there).
> > > 
> > > I need to
> > > 1) Get to a samba printer on the RedHat system.
> > >
> > IMO the easiest way to do this is with CUPS. Install
> > cupsys
> > cupsys-client
> > cupsys-bsd
> > cupsys-driver-gimpprint
> > 
> > then point your browser to http://localhost:631 and
> > use the web based
> > printer configuration
> >  
> > > 2) Be the gateway for other systems on the local
> > net
> > > to the internet (the Debian system has the Modem).
> > 
> > Install shorewall and read the docs at
> > www.shorewall.net. 
> > IP Masquerade is what you want, it is as easy as
> > putting 
> > 
> > ppp0  eth0
> > 
> > in /etc/shorewall/masq
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > -Mark
> > 
> 
> 
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