Samba problem

[Nabeel Moidu]

On 10/31/07, Steven Buehler <steve at ibushost.com> wrote:
>
>         I have a samba server setup on RHEL AS 5.  I can access it
> locally,
> but not from a remote server.  I have even turned off the firewall
> altogether, but that didn't solve the problem.  My samba is setup to allow
> from any host and not deny from any host.  The errors that I get from
> remote
> hosts is connection timeout.  I can connect by other means, ftp, ssh, etc
> from the other hosts, so at least I know that the physical server that
> Samba
> is on can be reached.  I have tried connecting from windows servers and
> from
> Linux servers, but unless it is in my own local network of computers and
> servers here, I can't connect.  The other Linux and windows servers are
> all
> in different states (so of course, different networks).
>
> Any help would be appreciated
> Thanks
> Steve


Try telnetting to ports 135 137 138 139 and 445 on the samba server from the
remote server.
It would give an idea if its a firewall problem or something else.

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Thanks and Regards
Nabeel Moidu
Doha, Qatar