[Samba] Re: samba not working

[richard]

don't forget built in Xp firewall?

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 02:17, Ralph Bard wrote:
> I'm having exactly the same problem and I've tried from W2K Server as well
> as XP Pro. Samba is 2.2.8a on RedHat 8. From the windows side you can run
> "nbtstat -A ipaddr" and doing so against the windows machine works. It comes
> back with "host not found" when pointed at the linux box but it's pingable,
> telnet, ftp etc, everything I've turned on is there. This message is
> supposed to indicate there is something blocking the port(s) 137-139 but
> nothing is behind a firewall.
> 
> I could not find swat and other basic utilities from the RH8 default smb
> installation, so I downloaded and rebuilt samba. Everything is there, swat
> fires up and makes changes properly etc but no change from the windows side.
> I'm completely at a loss now - the machine shows up on the browser list but
> won't open to show any shares.
> 
> -Ralph
> 
> 
> "blaschke" <blaschke at wisd.net> wrote in message
> news:1050031265.3e9634a117a09 at www.wisd.net...
> > I have been trying for a while to get samba operational from the network
> > neighborhood side of things.
> >
> > I can use the command line interface from within my linux box and I can
> > access
> > the shares, but when I try it through network neighborhood, it tells me
> > network path not found.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > I am running redhat linux 7.3 and samba version 2.2.8
> >
> > James B.
> >
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