[Samba] please help

[Paul Gienger]

Are you going through any consumer grade ISPs here? Most notabe would be 
your local cable company.  Most of them block the 'traditional' smb 
ports (137 and 139) at their routers.  If you're behind a router you 
also need to do some hacking, but only if the ISP cause above is not 
applicable to you.

Barb Collamore wrote:

>Hello,
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>I have recently signed up for a "virtual private server" which offers Samba
>Share.  I am trying to connect to my samba share folder through my Windows
>XP Professional PC by mapping a network drive.
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>I am unable to do this and get the error message, "The network path "name of
>my server and folder" could not be found.
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>I was told by our hosting provider that they do not support configuring my
>smb.conf file, but they feel that something is wrong, as they (the hosting
>providers) are able to connect and I am not.
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>I have attached my smb.conf file and have no idea as to what might be wrong
>or what to change as I am not familiar with samba. 
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>I would appreciate any direction you could provide.
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>Thank you.
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>Barb Collamore
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