samba and inetd problems

Ron Alexander rcalex at home.com
Sat May 20 15:36:10 GMT 2000


AFAIK the firewalls and VPN are all ok. The real problem is my lack of
understanding of networking. I am slowly learning, and expect to get
everything working in the next week or so.

Thanks,
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: James Sutherland [mailto:jas88 at cam.ac.uk]
Sent: May 19, 2000 3:31 PM
To: Ron Alexander
Cc: 'Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL'
Subject: RE: samba and inetd problems


On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ron Alexander wrote:

> I don't know the details of the bug(s) in inetd or the stcp stack in
> general.
>
> I do know, that swat is now working for the 1st time! This is a bonus!
>
> Keep in mind that the connection looks like this:
>
> >From my NT4.0 SP6a thru 2 firewalls on my PC(ZoneAlarm and AtGuard) out
the
> @home cable network thru? a hardware firewall (VPN, RADIUS) to the
Stratus.
>
> I have been able to update files on the Stratus from my PC, but nothing
> works in the other direction. I think it has something to do with browsing
> etc., but I am not sure. I am going to attempt to put a Linux firewall at
> the cable modem, and create a network behind it of my NT Workstation and a
> new NT4.0 server. The server can become the Master Browser? and hopefully
> allow browsing from the Stratus back to my PC.

So Samba works when you connect to the Stratus, but not when the Stratus
connects to you?

I'd guess the firewalls are blocking out the incoming access when the
Stratus tries to access your NT box; setting up, say, a PPP tunnel between
the two sites should avoid that without poking any holes in the firewall.


James.



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