> Lee, > > Well I'm thinking that maybe the firewall is blocking the ports that > SMB uses. I'm not sure what those ports are, there are several on both > TCP and UDP. To quickly test to see if it is the firewall I would > either open it up or disable it entirely. I don't know how your > network is setup or if that's possible but if you are going to do it, > it would be best to make sure the machines do not have an Internet > connect while the firewall is open. At least this way you could > quickly eliminate the firewall from the equation. Let me know how it > goes. >
Carefull!!!! Samba, as a unix/linux implementation of the Microsoft SMB protocol, uses the same ports as Microsoft Windows file/printer sharing. Disabling firewall blocking of these ports would leave any windows clients on your network vulnerable to a plethora of nasty programs on the 'net. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
