Connecting to Samba through a Firewall

[Doug VanLeuven]

What kind of firewall? ie:
proxy - forwarding turned off?
filtering - forwards, but ports 137 & 138 being blocked?

-----Original Message-----

>I have Samba installed on a Sun-Sparc UNIX box at a co-location facility.
>At my office, we have an internal network protected by Wingate firewall
>software.  I cannot connect from my Windows 95 machine to the Samba share
>because of the firewall.  However, from the server that has the firewall
>server (it also has 2 network cards - 1 internal and 1 external), I can
>connect without any problem.
>
>Does anyone have any idea of how to fix the situation so I can connect from
>my local Windows 95/98 computers to the Samba shares?
>
>Any help would be very greatly appreciated!
>Rhys
>"Sometimes it does take a Rocket Scientist!"
>
>Rhys Ryan
>rhysryan at pacbell.net
>http://home.pacbell.net/rhysryan
>

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