I'm a newbie running rh7.1 with samba 2.2.2 in an NT domain. The samba machine (persephone) is visible to NT machines but when I try to connect to it I get a "not accessible" error. It also says "No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the remote system."

Everything appears to be working correctly, nmbd and smbd are up, testparm returns no errors.

I'm stumped.:smash:

I seem to be having the same problem you are, I have a Windows NT network, and I am running samba 2.2.5-2 on a rh7.3 operating system, I can see the Samba machine, but when i try to access it from another machine on the network I get a "not accessible" error. I also get an error that says "No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the remote system." when I try to access the Samba machine from one of the NT servers, I can even see the rest of the NT network from the Samba machine, but I do not seem to have the proper rights set to access the drives and folders of the other computers on the network, but I do see them from the Samba machine. Everything appears to be working correctly, nmbd and smbd are up, and testparm returns no errors. Please let me know if you have gotten an answer to this problem, we have tried everything over here, and nothing seems to work. Thanks.

We fixed the problem here, it seemed the firewall that was installed during the installation process was causing the problem, to reconfigure the firewall, or to disable it all together you need to type the command "lokkit" then choose from there what you want to do.

Wow! cheers for the post Alan,

I've been all day trying to get samba shares up on my W2K box and this was exactly the porblem. Thing is on RH Linux 8.0 I don't even remember setting the firewall settings. I can't find it mentioned any where as a risk even.

once again cheers

Chris

Thanks Alan,

I've been trying on and off for a month to get Samba working on our network. Thanks to your post it's running like a charm.

Thanks again
CFLDC

se my quwestion in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=40963

i've installed redhat 8.0 on my laptop and i would like to share files with the windows xp machine. I can use the internet that is conected to the XP computer an i can ping both computers.

when i press the linux computer in my browser it comes one error message:

"\\localhost is not accessible ............permission
you where not connected because a duplicate name exist on the network. .................."

What is wrong?
please Help me!!!!

History:

workgroup = jupiter
server string = Higate Samba Server

and at the end i type:

[myshare]
comment = HiGate's stuff
path = /home/higate
valid users = HiGate
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765

Then I create separate password file for Samba

cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd

chmod 600 /etc/samba/smbpasswd

smbpasswd username

following lines are not commented out:

encrypt password = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

AND AT last i run
service smb restart

I can se the rehat computer in XP explorer:
- microsoft windows network
- jupiter
+ kid my kids computer
+ localhost this is the Linux computer
+ pingu this is the XP:

As Alan replied earlier, I found that by typing the "lokkit" command, you can opt to turn off or alter the settings of the Firewall. I turned it of for now and everything works like a charm.