FC4 Samba config...

[Temlakos]

Markus Huber wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> 
>> I have tried and tried and tried to get Samba to work to no avail.  I
>> have followed tutorial after tutorial and none seem to work for me. 
>> Here's the problem.  I set up a samba share with pretty much the
>> default settings, but I change the auth to share.  I have a laptop
>> with XP on it and my desktop is a conglomeration of XP, Gentoo, and
>> FC4.  I can provide my smb.conf file if that is needed.  The problem I
>> have doesnt seem to be with the Samba but with the XP computer.  I
>> click on the Computer in Network neighborhood to access the shared
>> files, but a dialog box pops up saying that my linux computer is
>> either not available or I do not have sufficeint auth to access it. 
>> Anybody have some answers.  If I need to supply some more information
>> I can...
>>
> 
> You might have to set firewall rules. Have you tried to access your 
> samba share having the firewall on FC4 switched off? This would test if 
> you need to set it.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 

Actually, you need to open the following ports as destination ports to 
your system or network:

udp port 137
tcp port 139
tcp port 445

If you're using a router, you might /also/ have to open those three 
ports as /source/ ports as well. That might seem redundant, but I've had 
my router route traffic to/from these ports through other ports. I 
checked this out with ethereal.

Anyway: clear traffic through those ports to/from your system/network, 
and samba will connect without worry.

Temlakos