If I use c:\windows\lmhosts file on a remote Los95 PC and "net use g:
\\samba_server\user_name", what are the bare minimum ports that I need to
open on a firewall in front of the samba server?
Will the mapping, "net use" only (no browsing), still work if only TCP
ports (say 137, 138 or 139) are allowed? If so, which TCP ports are
absolutely necessary?
Why I asked this is because I have a dial-up server outside of the
firewall, and the samba server is inside the firewall.
Peter
At 03:45 AM 5/16/98 -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
>Mike Blatchley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> O.K., I've now got a RH 5.0 i386 machine answering and connecting incoming
>> Windows-95 PPP connections (thanks Eric Smith and Dan Cyr). The only
>> Win-95 service running is TCP/IP (no IPX, no NETBEUI), so users can POP
>> their mail, telnet to machines on the LAN, etc.
>>
>> The next hurdle is to allow Network Neighborhood access to other Win-95
>> machines on the LAN.
>
>I'm not an expert on Microsoft networking. But I'll offer my opinion
>anyhow. :-)
>
>I think the general solution for this requires running a WINS server. This
>is what Windows uses to find other machines on IP networks. If you don't
>already have a Windows NT machine set up as a WINS server, you can have
>Samba do it. See the "BROWSING.txt" file in the Samba docs for the details.
>The brief summary is that you need to add a line to your smb.conf in the
>[globals] section stating "wins support = yes".
>
>The other approach is that on any given client you can manually add hosts
>to the file LMHOSTS in the Windows directory. The syntax is basically the
>same as a /etc/hosts file. This is especially useful if you need to
>remotely access a server on an entirely different network than you usually
>use.
>
>Cheers,
>Eric
>
>
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