samba setup with win XP 1

[blackboy]

I'm running win XP Pro and redhat 7.2 under a local network (with a DSL router). I'm trying to setup samba on redhat so I can access my linux files under XP. I could see (browse) the linux share in network neighborhood. But when I double click on it it returns with an error. So I started my troubleshooting..

I went through the trouble shooting at:

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.html

and got to test 8:

net view \\BIGSERVER

which gave the following response:

System error 1234 has occured.
No service is operating at the network destination
endpoint on the remote system.

I did another test,

net view \\192.168.2.20

(where 192.168.2.20 is where the linux server, i.e. BIGSERVER, is sitting at)

I got a error 53, network path not found.

I followed the suggestion on the diagonsis to add 192.168.2.20 into WINS resolution on winxp but it still doesn't work.

I also did some other random test:

telnet BIGSERVER works fine
(just to prove it is resolving the hostname, however it works only after i edited the "host" file under windows/system32/etc/drivers/ directory)

ping BIGSERVER is fine

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks,
Albert.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If you are confident that the samba server is active (try command 'smbstatus') then the most likely problem is firewalling on the linux box. Redhat 7.x ships with a default firewall called lokkit that frequently causes these kind of problems. You can admin lokkit as root with :

# /usr/sbin/lokkit

and maybe just set your lan interface as 'trusted'. Then restart the network :

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

See if it now works... You can display the active firewall rules with :

# /sbin/ipchains -L

Hope this helps

 

[blackboy]

This is EXACTLY the problem. Thanks a lot!!!