Samba and RedHat 7.2

Trond Eivind Glomsrød teg at redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 11:56:02 GMT 2001


Duane Douglas <ddouglas at mindspring.com> writes:

> At 11:37 AM 11/19/2001 -0600, Brian Howard wrote:
> > Well, I thought I was an "experience" samba user, but I've ran into
> > something I've never seen before:
> >
> > All SAMBA protocols (smbd and nmbd) work fine on the "localhost",
> > but do not work from a remote system (NT or Linux). This includes
> > "telnet server 139". Basically, the telnet test works as one would
> > expect from the localhost, but not from any remote system. (Do
> > realize that telnet, ftp and other non-SAMBA protocols work
> > perfectly to/from this server.)
> >
> >Any ideas?
> 
> newer redhat linux distributions now block remote access to all tcp
> ports by default via ipchains.  

Not by default - you get a choice of firewall configurations during configuration.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.




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