John Danielson, II wrote:
>
> man samba-server, after installing it. Linux does not peer-to-peer
well to
> Windows boxes. Also, make sure you have holes in your server
"firewall"
> for this, please.
>
I struggled with this on my home network (very similar to Mark's
situation) and was about to give up, when I ran across this very same
issue. I had spent days and days going over my smb.conf file...
The problem was indeed that I had elected for strong firewall protection
during the Redhat install, and the firewall was not allowing the smb
requests to pass through to the Linux kernel, exactly as John described.
Once I became a mini-expert at firewall configuration, I had my machines
talking in every direction, including mapping the smb shares as network
drives on the Win boxes, and smbfs mounting the win shares under /mnt on
the Linux box.
MH++
--- Michael J. Hoffman "2+2=5, for very large values of 2..."
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