help with Win2k and Samba

[Duane Douglas]

At 05:56 PM 11/21/2001 -0500, Marco Vaca wrote:
>Hello, I´ve been trying to solve a problem which i´m pretty sure it´s a 
>"newbie problem"...  I´ve installed Samba 2.0.7 on a Red Hat 7.1 machine, 
>configured a small smb.conf file, updated the Windows registry with the 
>"plain text passwords", and reviewed the DIAGNOSTICS.TXT about 10 times, 
>every time, steps 1 - 7 work fine but step 8 (net view 
><file://\\SambaServerName>\\SambaServerName) fail.
>
>Also, I´ve downloaded WebMin to try to fix the problem with the 
>configurations with no change in the problem.
>
>I´ve already tried to Enable Password Encryption, Disable it, and still i 
>cannot view the shares in my Win 2k Box.
>
>Here´s the smb.conf file i´m using:
>
>[global]
>  printing = lprng
>  dns proxy = no
>  security = user
>  encrypt passwords = yes
>  ssl ca certfile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>  workgroup = GRUPO_TRABAJO
>  server string = Samba Server (Viper)
>  socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>  log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>  load printers = yes
>  printcap name = /etc/printcap
>  wins support = true
>  max log size = 0
>
>[homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    writable = yes
>
>[printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    browseable = no
>    guest ok = no
>    printable = yes
>
>[prueba]
>  path = /home/Administrador
>  valid users = Administrador
>  comment = Win2k
>  public = yes
>
>[pruebame]
>  path = /home/Marco/
>  writable = yes
>  valid users = Marco
>  comment = Millenium
>  public = yes
>
>Every time I try to view the network neighborhood in W2K i can actually 
>see the Server, with the comment, but when I try to open it, an error pops 
>up after quite some time.  "Network path not found" or something like that.
>
>Please, I would really appreciate if someone has a solution to this 
>problem, i´m sure i´ve overlooked something very easy.  Thanx in advance.
>
>Marco Vaca

you probably have ipchains blocking tcp ports 137-139

hth

-------------- next part --------------
HTML attachment scrubbed and removed