[Samba] [Solved] Fedora 25 Samba and XP-SP3

[Reindl Harald]

Am 12.06.2017 um 09:41 schrieb Mike Brown via samba:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 09:28:20AM +0200, Reindl Harald via samba wrote:
>> Am 12.06.2017 um 09:03 schrieb Mike Brown via samba:
>>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 01:53:10PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2017-06-11 at 20:08 -0500, Mike Brown via samba wrote:
>>>>> Yes, I know, XP-SP3 is very old.????It works for what I need it for.????I
>>>>> have
>>>>> some programs that will never be updated for Win 7.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that XP-SP3 and Fedora 14 work together just fine, so I'm
>>>>> guessing that
>>>>> a newer version of Samba is what is keeping me from logging in from
>>>>> XP.
>>>>> But, I do not know what to put in the smb.conf file to allow XP to
>>>>> mount
>>>>> a share.
>>>>
>>>> Try configuring XP to use NTLMv2 (ideally), or set 'ntlm auth = yes' if
>>>> you really can't set that for some reason (it is a security policy
>>>> setting on the client, in local security policies).
>>>
>>> Damn firewall.  By default, Samba isn't allowed to connect.  Found it by
>>> using wireshark to look at the packets and that gave me the clue
>>
>> no need for wireshark - normally one does simply "telnet host port" before
>> even consider debug deeper
> 
> Not sure I would have gotten the same info back.  Normally it is connection
> refused when I do something like that.  The wireshark message was more
> concise.  Either way, it was solved

yeah and when you get connection refused on a TCP port the service is 
not reachable at all - it's not running or some firewall in front and 
hence the ICMP "port unrechable" response

[harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ telnet localhost 445
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

[harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ telnet localhost 446
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused