accessing samba server.

amit_kalipur · 03-17-2009, 05:26 AM

Dear all,
I am using VMware workstation on windows xp sp 2.I installed RHEL5 on it.It is working fine but the problem is that,when i configured it as samba server and when i access the same through host windows,It dispalys error "network path is not found".There is no pinging problem.It is pinging well with host windows.I also installed guest windows on vmware workstation.It also pinging well but when i try to access samba server,it shows the same error. Please help me.
Thanks.

allend · 03-19-2009, 07:45 AM

Check your firewall.
Samba needs ports 137 and 138 open for udp packets as well as ports 139 and 445 open for tcp packets.
For 'smbclient -L \\server' to respond, you will also want to accept udp packets sourced from port 137.

Code:

$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -s 10.1.1.1/27 -p udp --sport 137 -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -s 10.1.1.1/27 -p udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -s 10.1.1.1/27 -p udp --dport 138 -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -s 10.1.1.1/27 -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -s 10.1.1.1/27 -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT

The above are the lines from my firewall script that allow connections to my Samba server from my local 10.1.1 network.

Edit: Just saw your other post. It looks as though the firewall may not be the issue. Have you created a linux user AND Samba user with the same user name as that being used on your Windows clients?