Samba Problems

[cfletch]

I'm trying to set up SAMBA on a Redhat 7.2 distribution to serve 2 Windows machines. One with XP the other with ME.

While the Server will appear in the Network Neighborhood window neither machine can access the share set up on the server. I thought the problem might lie in the authentication process but I was going through the O'Reilly Using Samba book troubleshooting section and it suggested trying to FTP to the server. I installed the FTP daemon and can FTP to it from the Server itself but neither Windows machine can connect to it.

I regularly use FTP on the ME machine to work on my website so I know it works. Ping does work with both address and host name.

All of the Samba specific checks I run on the server show it to be running and functioning properly. Now I'm beginning to wonder if all my network functions are working correctly.

Any Ideas ?

Carroll

[cowanrl]

More than likely it's a firewall issue. If you accept the default firewall settings in a Red Hat 7.2 install, it will block everything except DHCP, pings and possibly HTTP.
To test for sure, shut down the firewall with this command as root:

service iptables stop

Then try to access your Linux machine via ftp and Samba.

If it works, leave the firewall off if you don't need it. If you need the firewall, you'll need to configure it to let Samba traffic through.

[michaelk]

Have you add a created a user with smbpasswd?

[cfletch]

I shut down iptables and that didn't work so I shut down ipchains. Now everything seems to be working fine. If I only had a dollar for every time I have had to restart these WinXX machines. Thanks for the help.

CF

[cowanrl]

Your welcome.