[Samba] Newbie: Samba and Networks

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:32, mwestern at sola.com.au wrote:
> sounds like you have bitten off a big chunk...   first of all, can you map
> the drive on the local network?   you need port 135 open across all your
> routers/firewalls, and i'm guessing if it's a real firewall 135 will
> definitly be closed...   

135 is not required for drive mapping, nor name resolution.  It is the
DCERPC endpoint mapper port.

> if this is just a once off thing, or not used much have you considered using
> winscp?  it's a remote/local copy freebie that uses ssh.   i use it quite a
> bit when i can't be bothered using samba, or it's a brand new box...
> i'm assuming you use ssh here not telnet?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sims, Steve [mailto:Steve.Sims at KBM1.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:02 AM
> To: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: [Samba] Newbie: Samba and Networks
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Installing samba 2.2.8a on a Solaris 2.8 machine for the purpose of mounting
> shared Unix file systems on W2K clients.
> 
> Completed basic install, and tested OK on the same network.
> 
> However, when the W2K boxes are on a separate network, mapping the drive or
> using net use on the W2K box results in the dreaded "The network path was
> not found." message..  Traffic travels through at least four routers and two
> firewalls between the W2K box and the Solaris server.  Physically, these
> machines are in different cities.  I can ping both ways using ports 137-139,
> and 445.  Ftp and telnet work fine.

CIFS between different cities is always going to be painful, to say the
least.  I think the ports are correct, but how are you doing name
resolution?   Only IP or DNS names are going to make sense here.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
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