[newbie] Iptables and windows sockets

2005-03-01 Thread Paul
Hi all, I am trying to send in my tax-stuff through the internet. Unfortunately the program is for ms-windose. That is running on an old spare machine which connects to the internet through my linux machine. I have an iptables firewall running. Regular http-calls and so on run through the

Re: [newbie] Iptables and windows sockets

2005-03-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul wrote: Hi all, I am trying to send in my tax-stuff through the internet. Unfortunately the program is for ms-windose. That is running on an old spare machine which connects to the internet through my linux machine. I have an iptables firewall running. Regular http-calls and so on run through

Re: [newbie] Iptables and windows sockets

2005-03-01 Thread Paul
Op Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:25:13 -0600 schreef Mikkel L. Ellertson: They are probably doing something like making a new connection back to your box, to a specific port. The problem is knowing the port. You can look in the firewall logs to see what port is getting rejected, and forward that port to