[Samba] RE: using samba over AT@T broadband (Barry deFreese)

[Mason Kidd]

AT&T Broadband blocks ports 137,138, and 139. They want to protect those
Windows users that install File and Print Sharing from viruses and
attacks.

Mason Kidd

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> Reply-To: <bdefreese at cox.net>
> From: "Barry deFreese" <bdefreese at cox.net>
> To: <samba at samba.org>
> Subject: RE: [Samba] using samba over AT at T broadband
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:05:05 -0700
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> James,
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> You do realize what a security hole this is correct?
> 
> Barry deFreese
> Newbie
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of James T Prejsnar
>   Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:42 PM
>   To: samba at samba.org; James_Prejsnar at msn.com
>   Subject: [Samba] using samba over AT at T broadband
> 
> 
>   Hello.  I'm a Graduate Student, and I'm trying to set up Samba on my
> Solaris 2.8 box so that my team members can network map their home accounts
> from my Solaris box onto their PC.
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> 
> 
>   Everything works great within my home. (i.e. I have a home network, and
> all my PC's can mount my UNIX home directory.)
> 
> 
> 
>   My problem:  I can't network map my Home Directory outside my local
> subnet.  (i.e. I get the following Windows error message:  Can't find
> location or something in effect that it can't find my Solaris box)  I can
> ping and telnet to my Solaris box outside AT&T's subnet, but I can't use
> samba.  There are no logs created in /usr/local/samba/var for the PC
> connecting.  I even tried to create a lmhosts file on the PC outside my
> subnet, but that didn't help
> 
> 
> 
>   I've been reading the samba news-groups and using google.com, but nothing
> is helping me.  I just want to map my home directory by doing the following
> within the map network drive dialog:  \\65.96.xxx.xxx\username  outside my
> subnet.
> 
> 
> 
>   Information:
> 
>     1.. Samba Version: 2.2.2
>     2.. OS: Solaris 2.8 with all the recommended OS patch from SUN - SunOS
> unknown 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
>     3.. /etc/services file contains:
>   netbios-ns      137/tcp                         # NETBIOS Name Service
> 
>   netbios-ns      137/udp                         # NETBIOS Name Service
> 
>   netbios-dgm     138/tcp                         # NETBIOS Datagram Service
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>   netbios-dgm     138/udp                         # NETBIOS Datagram Service
> 
>   netbios-ssn     139/tcp                         # NETBIOS Session Service
> 
>   netbios-ssn     139/udp                         # NETBIOS Session Service
>