Samba problem

Barry Brimer lists at brimer.org
Thu Nov 1 17:00:12 UTC 2007


Quoting Nabeel Moidu <nabeelmoidu at gmail.com>:

> On 11/1/07, John Nichel <john at kegworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > --
> > John C. Nichel IV
>
>
>
> Exactly. Typically these ports are filtered out by most firewalls/router
> ACLs between networks because they are vulnerable to attacks. You'll have to
> talk with your network admin and get these ports opened on the firewalls in
> between your servers.

You might also be able to tunnel these ports using ssh tunnels or possibly
stunnel.




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