Can you post "ifconfig"?

Well i had similar issue try this

First
cat system-config-securitylevel

for Samba to go through firewall you should see

--port=137:udp
--port=138:udp
--port=139:tcp
--port=445:tcp

Your IPtables are not correct, port 137 and 445 are UDP not TCP ports! So 137 445 UDP ports should be open

add this to /etc/sysconfig/iptables (do not add after"COMMIT" line, just to let you know :-)

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 138 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT

This should work.

NiMacTry2,

Thanks for your response. I cut and pasted the 4 lines into /etc/sysconfig/iptables and restarted the iptables service but it did not change things.

# cat /etc/sysconfig/system-config-securitylevel did not list the additional ports.
And I still got a timeout when attempting to mount the samba drive from a remote client.

If I totally stop the firewall (service iptables stop) then I am able to mount the samba drive from a Windows desktop. This is not an acceptable solution, but it does tell me that the iptables rules are the problem.

(For billymayday and others who were helping me look at other things a month ago: I had reported that I had stopped the firewall and could still not connect, but the problem was the firewall on my Linux CLIENT box. When my client is a Windows box with no firewall and the firewall is stopped on the Linux client, it works.)

My /etc/sysconfig/iptables is listed here. Can you see anything I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
SS
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:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 138 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT

See http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...#firewallports

If is it allowed for to use GUI. Go to firewall settings and see if samba is checked as a allowed rule.