[Samba] Samba Samba and UFW

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Feb 15 13:35:52 UTC 2019


On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:27:20 -0500
Martin McGlensey via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Louis,
> 
> Did not mean to confuse. Before I upgraded to Mint 19.1 I could go to 
> the network, click on windows network, click on workgroup, then
> office and the windows pc (office) would mount. No problems. THe
> folders on the windows machine would be accessed. Now in Mint 19.1 I
> get the error "Unable to mount location....". We traced this behavior
> to the UFW firewall blocking the connection. Firewall enabled no
> connection. Firewall disabled connected. All I want is to get back to
> to the way the connection to office worked before upgrading the OS.
> Still believe that this an UFW issue.
> 
> Since I can now see the testingUFW share on the local (Linux PC) I
> tried connecting to it as anetwork location from the windows side.
> Still working on that. Perhaps that is a work around. Still the end
> game is to connect from the Mint 19.1 box to the Windows box.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marty
> 
> 
> 
> 

If it worked before you upgraded and didn't after, then you are asking
in the wrong place, you need to ask Linux Mint why it doesn't work any
more.

Rowland



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