Russ Brucks
2001-Mar-01 15:10 UTC
Can ping computers in another network, but can't see samba
Hi. We have a successful samba server up and running on our local network. We also have a connection via a 3Com ATM router to another network. I can ping computers on that network, and they can ping the samba server. In network neighborhood I can see their computers. They also see our Win9x/NT/2K systems under their network neighborhood, but they don't see the samba server. If I try to connect directly to a share using UNC (\\discfarm\discfarm) it says "Network resource not found" This is very puzzling. To recap, everything works perfectly on our local network. Clients can see the samba server and can attach. We have a few clients that need access from a remote network to whom we are attached via an ATM circuit. They can't see the samba server nor can they attach, even though they can see other Win9x/NT/2K boxes and can attach to those. Is there something I'm missing? Is this some limitation in samba? We obviously have the right ports open for IP, and the MS smb seems to be working just fine. Are there other ports that samba needs open through the router? Please feel free to email me for more specific information at russb@kfoc.net I would post my smb.conf file here, but this is my first post to this list and I'm not sure if that would be too lengthy. If needed I will post. Here are the quick and dirty server specs: RedHat 7 intel system w/ SCSI disks 256MB RAM samba version 2.0.7 Our network IP scheme: 172.20.0.0/255.255.252.0 Their network IP scheme: 10.0.0.0/255.255.240.0 We use SWAT to configure the server. Thanks again for any help that you as a community can provide. Russ