Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

[Mike McClain <mike.junk@nethere.com>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 08:24:11PM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote:
> 2014-08-08 09:04 keltez?ssel, Mike McClain ?rta:
> >     I've been trying to get my hand rolled iptables firewall to
> > masquerade traffic on the LAN to/from a Win2K box. I've gotten it to
> > the point that I can ping from the boxes both ways, smbclient can move
> > files both ways and the Win2K box can ping Google's IP address but DNS
> > lookup fails even though I've used the same DNS server in the Win2K
> > box as on my Debian box which access the Inet via dialup. IE says
> > "Cannot find server or DNS error."
< <snip> >

> It's a rather complicated, sometimes overcomplicated script. But some
> rules are missing and/or not in the correct order.

I've little doubt you are correct, admittedly I'm flailing a bit.
Trying this and that with little luck.
I'd appreciate it if you'ld be a little more explicit as to what's
missing and out of order. I'm running no external services.

> To keep things more simple I suggest to do a minimal script and you can
> make it more complicated later.
<snip>

I did exactly as you suggested, implimenting a minimalist set of rules,
only the 5 you mentioned and saw improvement. now the Win2K box can
ping google.com and get a reply but IE still can't connect to
Google.com nor several other sites I tried, still reporting,
"Cannot find server or DNS error."

Thanks for your help.
Any further suggestions?
Mike
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