I've tired several recommendations on this list to implement what I wanted to do but it's now working. So here it is again: I need to give a Win98 client (which we'll call PC1) behind a Linksys NAT router access to a samba server on the Internet (the purpose is so that it can see the samba shares in it's Network Neighbourhood). The samba server has a firewall running on it so I can open udp and tcp ports 137-139. I've setup the samba server as a wins server (wins support: yes). I've also setup PC1 so its wins server is the samba server on the Internet. Here's an extract of my conf: os level = 65 lm announce = False preferred master = True domain master = True wins support = Yes remote announce = IP of linksys NAT router socket address hosts allow = PC1 PC2 I've also setup the linksys router to forward ports 137-139 to PC1 because of 'remote anounce'. Have I done something wrong/incorectly? I'm also wondering about 'hosts allow'. PC1 is a netbios name of the remote PC that needs to connect to the samba server. The hosts table (on the samba server) maps PC1 to the IP of the linksys router. I was hoping to setup a VPN between the two sites but that seems to be too dificult. I will probably use stunnel if I can get things to work. Thanks. Gary Ferrer gary@ferrer.yi.org
I've tired several recommendations on this list to implement what I wanted to do but it's now working. So here it is again: I need to give a Win98 client (which we'll call PC1) behind a Linksys NAT router access to a samba server on the Internet (the purpose is so that it can see the samba shares in it's Network Neighbourhood). The samba server has a firewall running on it so I can open udp and tcp ports 137-139. I've setup the samba server as a wins server (wins support: yes). I've also setup PC1 so its wins server is the samba server on the Internet. Here's an extract of my conf: os level = 65 lm announce = False preferred master = True domain master = True wins support = Yes remote announce = IP of linksys NAT router socket address hosts allow = PC1 PC2 I've also setup the linksys router to forward ports 137-139 to PC1 because of 'remote anounce'. Have I done something wrong/incorectly? I'm also wondering about 'hosts allow'. PC1 is a netbios name of the remote PC that needs to connect to the samba server. The hosts table (on the samba server) maps PC1 to the IP of the linksys router. I was hoping to setup a VPN between the two sites but that seems to be too dificult. I will probably use stunnel if I can get things to work. Thanks. Gary Ferrer gary@ferrer.yi.org