Win2000 and RH 7.1 with Samba 2.0.10 or Samba 2.2.1a

[Charles M Swenson]

Christian,
	
	Thankyou. It was the fire wall.

-Charles Swenson-

> From: "Christian Barth" <barth at cck.uni-kl.de>
> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:17:40 +0200
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> > 
> > I have a system that can duel boot RH 6.2 and RH 7.1. When I boot RH
> > 6.2 Samba works just fine with encrypted passwords and all (Samba
> > 2.0.6). The Samba server shows up the the browse lists of all both the
> > win2000 and win98 systems.  I can get to my home directory on the RH
> > 6.2 system via Samba and print (provided I log into the win systems
> > correctly). When I set this up last year I was amazed at how simple
> > and well it worked.
> > 
> > I can not get samba to work after booting RH 7.1 with Samba 2.0.10 or
> > Samba 2.2.1a (from Rawhide) and I have spent way too much time on the
> > problem. I am hopeing that I am overlooking somthing simple and some
> > one can help me.
> > 
> > The problem:
> > 
> >     Samba no longer shows up the network browser for the win98 system
> >     an I get an error for the win2000 system when I start the browser
> >     (Computers near me) that says:
> > 
> > Swenson is not accessable
> > The list of servers is currently not available
> > 
> >     All computers are set up in the workgroup "Swenson"
> > 
> >     I have worked through the DIAGNOSIS.txt located at
> >     http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.html and everything
> >     works great till I get to test 8 and I run the following (from the
> >     Win2000 system) which gives and error.
> > 
> > c:\>net view \\thidwick
> > System Error 53 has occured.
> > 
> > The nework path was not found.
> > 
> >     So I am told that I should fixup the nmbd installation but I have
> >     no idea how to do that. I really do not want to use some of the
> >     other proposed solutions that involves changeing the PC clients. I
> >     know that they are fine since they currently work with RH
> >     6.2. setup.
> > 
> >     The smb.conf file is essentally the same betwee for the 6.2 and 7.1
> >     systems. I just uncommented a few lines in the distributed file
> >     and assigned the workgroup and restricted the list of computers
> >     that can get in. Any Suggestions?
> You installed RH 7.1 in the standard way? You have used "medium 
> security" during the install? Then RH ships with a software fire wall 
> that blocks the ports needed for samba. Look for "ipchains" or 
> "iptables" some thing similar. Disable it or configure it not to 
> block samba.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > -Charles Swenson-
> > 
> > 
> > 
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