hey everyone, i recently added a linux server to our network at the office and I am attempting to configure samba so the windows nt, xp, 98 machines can have access to the shares.

I believe samba is set up because i have mounted a shared drive from my win2k server and I have tried the smbclient -M 'compname' and have successfully received those messages on my windows machines.


My problem is when I go to network neighborhood on a windows machine, I see my linux server listed under the workgroup but I can not access it when I try to browse.
It says \\linuxserver not accessible. the network path was not found.


Any ideas!??
Thanks in advance.

Try a search! This site has several samba topics similar to yours.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=68220

Is NMBD running??
have you tried the IP instead of the netbios name?

Okay im reading through that post, and yes nmdb and smbd are both running.

And I just tried the ip address \\192.168.1.18 to connect but still the same message... "not accesible. path could not be found"

Can you ping to the linux box from your windoze?
Do you have any firewall up?

yes i can ping the linux box from my nt machine here...
and my firewall is set to high security. I did not customize it or anything..

and iptables is running, but I havent done anything with that.. So I'm not sure if thats what it would be or not

That's the problem, your firewall, try disabling your firewall and try it, if it works then you have to tune your iptables so it allow the proper incoming traffic.

Ah ha! that was it. I can browse my shares now from windows. Thank you!

I am clueless about the iptables, the only reason I know about them is from reading threads on this forum... care to help?

I'm also not good with firewalling, but I'm sure a lot of people here can help you. Try searching threads about samba and firewalls and there might be something usefull. If you don't find anything you can always start a new thread.

okay thanks for the advice

Try these URL's, I've set up a few samba servers and found these to be a great reference

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/