I have a couple of machines that are running samba one is 2.2.7, the other 2.2.7a. I can ping both machines by IP and by netbios name but only one shows up in Win2K Network Neighborhood and it is "inaccessible." Both linux boxes belong to "WORKGROUP" and samba access is set to SHARE. I cannot connect to either linux machine by IP name.

I have found that RH System Settings > Security Level claims make the changes I give up (including no firewall) but it always reverts back to its original settings. I tried installing Firestarter on one of the linux machines but that doesn't help

Questions:

What do I need to do to get rid of the RH firewall (I am behind a DSL modem/router/hubs so probably don't need any sofware firewall)?

Where can I look or what can I monitor to see what is blocking access to my samba shares?

This is a long story but my immediate need is to transfer about 7 GB of stuff from a linux box to a Win2K box. I can do this with a smbmount and push it from linux to Win2K but everything ends up marked as "read only" in Win2K. Is there an easy way to change permissions on about 8,000 files and directories?

Ralph

make sure you don't have anything that runs a firewall script in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, running those commands does not seem to change things. In the meantime, I found out how to make chmod recursive so I can fix the permissions problems and am about to starting pushing the data to the Win2K box.

I'll be back here and also be posting over in the network forum to try to get this and some related problems fixed.

Ralph

Running those commands changed things dramatically, unless you had no firewall to start with

I do not think that Firestarter disabled the RedHat firewall and I had done nothing myself other that installer Firestarter which was not running when I executed the commands.

Running those commands did change the fact that I cannot connect to the machine via samba. In fact, I cannot no longer ping it by name and cannot connect to it using its IP address(es), although I doubt that has to do with running the two commands.

BTW. what the commands do? Looks like the second one stopped the iptables service. What about the first one? These are newbie questions, not challenges.

Ralph

they turned off the firewall





if you can't ping you probably have networking turned off


see what this says

ifconfig -a

ifconfig -a shows both eth0 and eth1 are up. Looks like that 7 GB of files I transfered all went on eth0.

I can ping by IP but not by name. The Win2K network neighborhood can't find the linux machines by either name or IP(s). The Macs cannot see either NIC on one linux machine (the one I just ifconfig'd) and sees only one of two NIC on another linux machine and the Win2K machine.

when ifconfig -a shows both interfaces do they both have ip addresses

what's hooked up where ( to what interface) and what are everyone ip address.

It sounds like a very basic network configuration problem

I will post the lease table from the Cayman router (I think that is what you are asking for) when things have stabilized. I will also describe how things are connected to hubs and switches.

Things are very chaotic at the moment. I have recovered from HD problems on a machine that normally runs Win2K but my PowerMac died this morning and my other Win2K machine is currently unbootable (did to it what fixed the other Win2K machine).