win98 public share

[Joel Hammer]

I would look at the RH firewall (ipchains or iptables.)
You need ports 137,138,139 open.
cat /etc/services | grep -i netbios
Also note my comments below.
Joel


> The samba server is visable in network neighborhood but I get an error
> message when I try to see the shares on it.
> (trying to map the shares directly does not work either)
> the error is:
> \\Comuptosbox is not accessable
> 
> # Date: 2001/12/16 00:55:05
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = 1541 
>         server string = Samba Server
>         security = SHARE
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         map to guest = Bad User <--Do you need this?
>         null passwords = Yes   <--Do you need this?
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         max log size = 0
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         dns proxy = No
>         hosts allow = 192.168.0.
>         printing = lprng
> 
> [public]
>         comment = Pub
>         path = /pub
>         read only = No
>         guest only = Yes <----Do you need this?
>         guest ok = Yes
>         hosts allow = <---Do you need this?
>