Understanding Local Networking - help please?

DB Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Sep 16 14:12:27 UTC 2009



On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Mikkel wrote:
> DB wrote:
>    
>>      
> Dumb question 1 - are you running the smb and nmb services on the
> machines you are trying to connect to?
>
> Dumb question 2 - are you running a firewall on the machines? If so,
> did you open it up for Samba and Samba client?
>
> Dumb question 3 - does /var/log/messages or the log files in
> /var/log/samba show anything when you try to brows the network?
>
> Mikkel
>    

Ahh, the value of Dumb Questions!  smb & nmb wer disabled, & the 
firewall I didn't know I had wasn't open to Samba and Samba-client!!

So now I can see all 3 computers from both Fedora machines.  Now to find 
out how to access the files/mount the shares.

Thanks Mikkel!!!

Dave




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