Samba problem

[Barry Brimer]

Quoting Steven Buehler <steve at ibushost.com>:

> -----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.

Are these machines crossing the Internet or a private IP network?  Some networks
block Windows file sharing ports from the Internet so that a virus that spreads
across Microsoft networking gets blocked from entering their network.