[SOLVED] Cannot access Samba Server Outside Home network.

cawest1221 · 01-10-2013, 10:46 AM

I am currently running Fedora 17 and I have set up a Samba Server, Web Server, and SSH Server. The Samba server works perfect when I am accessing the shares within my network. When I try to access the Samba shares from the external IP I cannot mount the shares or view them. I do have ports 137-139 and 445 open.

Any Suggestions?

Thank you

Sydney · 01-10-2013, 11:21 AM

I think this could be a lot of things but I would start here
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-12.html

cawest1221 · 01-10-2013, 11:28 AM

Thank you very much, I believe everything is working correctly.

mcnalu · 01-10-2013, 01:52 PM

I had a problem like this with a remote smb share that I accessed from my laptop. It sometimes worked and other times didn't and eventually I found that certain ISPs were blocking smb somehow. The solution was to ssh tunnel the connection.

schneidz · 01-10-2013, 01:58 PM

i didnt even know it was possible to connect to a samba share outside of a network.

i use sshfs for this purpose.