samba and inetd problems

[Ron Alexander]

I just tried the telnet trick.

If I use ports 137 or 138 I get an immediate response of "telnet: Unable to
connect to remote host: The connection was refused." but if I use port 139,
it waits a long time before I get "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host:
The connection timed out."

What is the significance of this?

Regards,
Ron

p.s. I am going to disable my firewalls and try the test again. I will then
re-boot in order to restore myself to a secure mode.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Sutherland [mailto:jas88 at cam.ac.uk]
Sent: May 20, 2000 12:07 PM
To: Ron Alexander
Cc: 'Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL'
Subject: RE: samba and inetd problems


On Sat, 20 May 2000, Ron Alexander wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, I really do appreciate it even if I sound a bit
> testy at times.

No problem - anything to spread Samba around! Except perhaps making it
into a VBS script and e-mailing it... :)

> I am going to check my firewalls again since that is an obvious
possibility.
> I will let you know.
> Are you a firewall expert?

I should be able to identify whether or not they are the problem, anyway.
The easiest way to test would be to try connecting to the smbd or nmbd
ports on your NT box, from the Stratus ("telnet nt.box.hostname *" where *
is the port you want). If that can't connect, you know the packets are
getting blocked out.


James.