Network Servers access to samba and windows servers

Steve Cowles steve at stevecowles.com
Fri Sep 3 18:37:05 UTC 2004


Scot L. Harris wrote:
> In a recent thread there were a few of us that were experiencing
> problems accessing windows and samba servers via the Network Servers
> item in the main menu under FC2.  
> 
> I believed this to be a problem with Nautilus since the same
> configuration for samba worked fine under FC1.  There appeared to be
> some improvement after modifying some of the samba configuration
> options.  
> 
> The recent update to samba however appears to have changed the behavior
> significantly and possibly improved the results.  When the network
> servers item is selected the window now not only contains the Windows
> Network icon but it also includes each of the servers on the network. 
> Selecting the Windows Network item displays the same set of servers as
> in the main window.
> 
> There still appears to be some issue with iptables and the Network
> Servers item.  With iptables disabled it appears to work.  As soon as
> iptables is enabled however even with 137,138,139, and 445.  
> 
> It is interesting that the new version of samba changed the results
> significantly.
> 

That is interesting. Especially since KDE's konsole still continues to 
work properly at this end.

BTW: I'm not seeing any problems with firewall rules. My FC2 DMZ system 
   displays identical results (using nautilus) as my FC2 system located 
on my private LAN. The only difference between the two systems is I have 
the DMZ/samba system configured to win the local master browser election 
on DMZ subnet. All hosts on both networks (Windows or Linux) are 
configured to register with a single WINS server.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch... I'm going to upgrade samba and see if I 
see the same results. Thanks for the update.

Steve Cowles





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