i have a linux box and a win box. i use linux as gateway which has 2 NICs, eth0 and eth1. eth0 is T1 connection to ISP(DHCP), and eth1 configured as 192.168.1.1. Win box as 192.168.1.3
Before i connected 2 machines parellelly to T1 connection(DHCP), didn't use linux as gateway. samba worked. now i couldn't connect to linux from win box.
What is wrong? How can i fix it?

Thanks.

BTW, i'm running RH8, samba 2.2.7, i guess

Can you ping the Linux eth1 from the Windows box?

I'm not sure I can make sense of this configuration.

You have eth0 directly connected to your T1?

If so, what was it connected to *before*?

Anyway, I'll have a stab at your problem. I'm assuming you were doing DHCP on *both* machines before, and that now your win2k machine has a private ip it's not working.

In which case - look at your smb.conf and look for the following lines :

# This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict
# connections to machines which are on your local network. The
# following example restricts access to two C class networks and
# the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see
# the smb.conf man page
; hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.

Ensure that your hosts allow line has 192.168.1.
in it. If it doesn't it won't allow you to connect.

Slick.

yes, i can ping linux:eth1 from winbox. and i use linux box as gateway, no problem.
yes, i have that line uncommented.
i even tried:
interfaces = 192.168.1.1/24
and
bind interface only = yes

didn't work out.

Thanks to you guys.

Fair enough...

Now, do you have a firewall up, and are you filtering ports 139 and urm.. 138 is it? I forget. It'll show up in iptables -L as netbios stuff.

In addition, can you look in your /var/log/samba/ logs for errors you're getting. Either nmbd.log or smbd.log

Slick.

it seems that the problem getting clear. i'm not familiar with the firewall settings. i'll try to solve it.

Thanks, Slick.

Thank you all, guys.
After I reset the firewall acording to IP-Masquerade-Howto, problem solved.

Thanks.