Thanks Michael, and John.(and everyone else). Looks like I have to get
current on Linux firewalls. Once I get this all corrected and working
like I want maybe I can serve up a mini-howto for this kind of problem.
Ill be keeping some notes.
Mark Saunders
msaunder@tampabay.rr.com
Michael J. Hoffman wrote:
>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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