Samba problem

[John Nichel]

Steven Buehler wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Nabeel Moidu
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:10 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Samba problem
> 
> 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.
> 
> ------------
> I can get to the ports from the local network, but not from a remote
> network.  I have some other servers in different Data centers around the
> country.  I turned on samba by "service smb start" and turned off the
> firewalls.  The same thing happened with them.  I was able to access them
> from the local networks, to that server, but not from remote networks.
> 
> Thanks
> Steve
> 

Firewall may be off on the boxes running Samba, but routers between you 
and the remote boxes may not be letting traffic through.

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John C. Nichel IV
System Administrator
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