[SOLVED] Unable to connect to Samba on CentOS 6.2 machine

jbruyet · 08-01-2012, 06:11 PM

Hey all, I'm stumped. I've configured Samba on all of my Linux servers as an easy way to move files to and from my XP workstation (<-- sorry). I just created a CentOS 6.2 machine and I'm unable to connect to it from Windows. I even copied the smb.conf file from another machine with a working Samba configuration but I still can't connect. Restarting smbd and nmbd looks good -- no errors. I know that they ARE starting because:

Code:

[root@CentOS62 Shares]# ps -ef | grep [sn]mbd
root      2973     1  0 15:33 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd start
root      2974  2973  0 15:33 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd start
root      2976     1  0 15:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd start

BUT, if I run nmap on this machine the only open port below 5000 is 22. So why isn't port 139 opening up???

Thanks,

Joe B

michaelk · 08-01-2012, 06:40 PM

Have you configured the firewall if running and selinux for SMB traffic?

jbruyet · 08-02-2012, 11:28 PM

Wow, thanks michaelk, that was it. I was so sure I turned iptables off that I didn't bother to confirm it.

Thanks again,

Joe B

michaelk · 08-03-2012, 08:50 AM

Your welcome. Please mark this thread as solved.