Firewall and Samba

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I am working on getting samba running on Open SuSE Linux 11.1. Wehn going into YAST and then Security and Users, and then firewall, I then enter into the broadcasts section. I then add an entry, and for the network address 0/0 is entered in the input field automatically. The address of 0/0 does work but have been told to use an address of something like: 192.168.1.0/24 to make things more secure. But when I do, I can not go into Network Browsing, then SMB shares, and see Workgroup displayed. When 0/0 is entered in the network address, I do. So, what is wrong with the address of 192.168.0/24?

Thanks!

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Check @swerdna’s info
Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials: Suse Linux 10.0, 10.1 openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1

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Puzzled – to you have a typo in one of the IPs? Are you using 192.168.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24? And can you postr the output you get from this command in a console window:

sudo /sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet addr"
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I was referred to the website: Samba Server and Suse / openSUSE: HowTo Configure a Professional File Server on a SOHO LAN prior to posting here. Nice website and will be referring to it as time goes along.

I tried re-entering the address again, and this time it works. I must have done a typeo of 192.168.0/24 where I now have, and it works, of 192.168.1.0/24. Will see if it persists tomorrow.