[Samba] Difficulties getting Windows 2000 and NT working with
Samba on Redhat 8
Michael Heironimus
mkh01 at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 17 19:30:38 GMT 2003
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:40:46PM -0000, Roger Harden wrote:
> Having set up the Windows clients and Samba (version 2.2.5-10) with a
> 'tmp' share the share cannot be accessed from the Windows clients.
>
> On the Windows clients, after attempting to map a network drive to the
> Samba share using Windows Explorer the message
> 'No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the
> remote system'
> is diplayed.
>
> I believe I have checked all the settings and get the smb prompt
> successfully on the Samba server using the Windows user login using
> 'smbclient //server/tmp -U username' after inputting the required
> password.
Have you verified that the server does not have firewall rules
configured? Red Hat's default installation sets up some default rules if
you say "yes, I want a secure machine" but doesn't exactly tell you what
it's doing, so it's a fairly common problem.
--
Michael Heironimus
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