Re: [SLE] samba can't see windows shares

30 Aug 2004

      OK. This turns out to be a firewall problem, in that everything works
when I switch the firwall off. So suse firewall 2 is somehow blocking
nmblookup packets. Now, I don't know anything about configuring the
suse firewall, and the docs are written for ppeople who do know what
they are doing.

Can anyone tell me what I should change and where to make the suse
firewall work with nmblookup? It works with every other part of samba
already, and is configured to let through ports 137-139 on the
internal network (I think).

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:46:10 +0100, Andrew Brown  wrote:
...
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:01:10 -0500, David Rankin
 wrote:
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Andrew,
What does
smbclient -U% -L localhost
show?
This:
Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        ukraine         Disk      The old windows ukraine
        d               Disk      try this
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
        REP             Disk      Routledge Encyclopaedia of philosophy
        DNB             Disk      DNB
        OED             Disk      OED
        old_c           Disk      The old MIddle C
        whoswho         Disk
        bible           Disk      the bible in english
        whos_who        Disk
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.4-SUSE)
        ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.4-SUSE)
Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        WOMBAT               Samba 3.0.4-SUSE
Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        WORKGROUP            WOMBAT
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Brown" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:19 PM
Subject: [SLE] samba can't see windows shares
...
I have a strange problem with Samba. Running under Suse 9.1, with
Samba 3.04, I can browse the shares on a Linux box from machines
running Windows 2k with no problems. Everything works as it should.
But I can't see Windows shares (or for that matter, the Linux shares)
from any linux file manages. I can, and do access windows drives using
smbmount. But whenever I try, using conqueror, or the XFCE file
manager, to see shares on the Windows machines, I can't find anything,
and the attempt to see things manually, with nmblookup -M gives me a
name_query error. Frantic googling turns up nothing helpful. Can
anyone here help?
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