Opening ports?

[y2thrasher]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to open specific ports on Mandrake 8. I have a game server i would like to run on one of my Windows PC's and I have Mandrake sharing its internet connection with the rest of the PC's. I can't get anyone to connect to the server so my guess is that the port the game uses is not open on the Linuxbox.

Thanks for any help from anyone. :)

[Strike]

Whatever program needs the ports should open them. If you don't have a firewall in place, things should be okay in terms of being able to connect to the port - are you sure your server is set up correctly?

[tolstoy]

Originally posted by y2thrasher:
<STRONG>I have a game server i would like to run on one of my Windows PC's and I have Mandrake sharing its internet connection with the rest of the PC's.
Thanks for any help from anyone. :)</STRONG>

Do you mean that the server is installed on the Windows box and that the boxes share yor net connection through ICS? Or is the server run off of Mandrake and you want to allows Windows clients to connect to the server port.

[y2thrasher]

The server is going to be run under WinME :rolleyes: . My Linuxbox is connected to an AT&T cable modem. Through the Linuxbox I used the Internet Connection Sharing wizzard, that comes with Mandrake 8, to share this connection with 3 other computers, all running windows. I want to know if there is somewhere that I can specify which ports I want open (a script file, commands ect..) Hopefully this clarifies my question.

[Strike]

Why run the server on the WinME box? Why not just make it easier and run it on the Mandrake box? If you run it on the WinME box, you have to go through the trouble of forwarding those ports to the WinME box and it's a pain if you haven't done it before (since AFAIK it has to be done at the command-line which most newbies find a pain)

[y2thrasher]

Well the server I want to run hasn't been ported to Linux so I wouldn't be able to run it through mandrake unless I run wine or some other windows emulator. How would I go about forwarding the ports to my WindowsPC? That is really my main question, maybe someone could point me in the direction of a HowTO of a FAQ on that subject.

Thanks again.