samba - Jun 2003 - Can't access Samba Servers using cable internet access

Hello,

Ever since adding Internet access to my cable account, I can no longer
access several Samba servers on the Internet that I routinely accessed using
my dialup account. I've tried using both the inetd server (with my cable IP
address in the hosts.allow file. I can telnet, etc no problem, so I know
it's working) and running smbd and smbd as daemons. When I try to access the
Samba server, I watch the logs on the server, no warnings, errors, notices,
etc., no indiation that I'm even attempting to access the server. I've
tried
using both the name in my /etc/hosts file, and also by IP address. As I said
before, I had no problems using my dialup account.

Can anyone shed ANY light on what's going on?

TIA,

Bobby

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:02, Bobby Hitt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ever since adding Internet access to my cable account, I can no longer
> access several Samba servers on the Internet that I routinely accessed
using
> my dialup account. I've tried using both the inetd server (with my
cable IP
> address in the hosts.allow file. I can telnet, etc no problem, so I know
> it's working) and running smbd and smbd as daemons. When I try to
access the
> Samba server, I watch the logs on the server, no warnings, errors, notices,
> etc., no indiation that I'm even attempting to access the server.
I've tried
> using both the name in my /etc/hosts file, and also by IP address. As I
said
> before, I had no problems using my dialup account.
> 
> Can anyone shed ANY light on what's going on?
You should *never* place a Samba server on the public internet - it is
an inherit security risk.  If you have not yet upgraded to Samba 2.2.8a,
then you probably have been rooted too.

Either connect via a VPN, or connect with a more secure protocol - like
SSH/SFTP.

Many ISPs block ports 139 and 445 for this exact reason.

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet@hawkerc.net
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Bobby Hitt wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Ever since adding Internet access to my cable account, I can no longer
>access several Samba servers on the Internet that I routinely accessed using
>my dialup account. I've tried using both the inetd server (with my cable
IP
>address in the hosts.allow file. I can telnet, etc no problem, so I know
>it's working) and running smbd and smbd as daemons. When I try to access
the
>Samba server, I watch the logs on the server, no warnings, errors, notices,
>etc., no indiation that I'm even attempting to access the server.
I've tried
>using both the name in my /etc/hosts file, and also by IP address. As I said
>before, I had no problems using my dialup account.
>
>Can anyone shed ANY light on what's going on?
>
>TIA,
>
>Bobby
>
>  
>
yes, most cable companys block smb traffic across their networks see if 
you can telnet to the remote box on port 137, 138, and 139 to just 
recieve connect messages if you can then I hve no idea what is going on 
but it sounds like your cable company is blocking traffic.

Jeff Means
meaje@meanspc.com

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