Quite often household/soho routers block netbios requests.
This usually can be disabled in the router's setup.
However I would suggest that the idea that you or noone else can access
samba/netbios from the internet is a very very GOOD thing.
But if you are willing to accept the risks involved and have a need to access
them from outside just check very carefully through your router's setup as
you'll probabaly find that it is intentionally blocking netbios.
-Joe
On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> yes, every request is forwarded to the IP address of the linux box.
> yes, I can access e.g. apache and vnc server.
> yes, this is my situation.
>
> THX,
> Carsten
>
> Joe wrote:
> > Let me get this striaght...
> > You have your router set to forward (for external connections from the
> > internet) the netbios ports (among other ports) to your linux box running
> > samba.
> > Also you can access other services running on the linux box via the
> > internet. Is this a correct assesment of your situation?
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> > On Thursday 26 September 2002 02:16 pm, you wrote:
> >>Carsten Dannat wrote:
> >>>Hi Ben,
> >>>
> >>>>Just to clarify, do I understand correctly that your Win2k machine CAN
> >>>>see the shares when connected by wire, but NOT when wireless?
> >>>
> >>>Win2K can see the shares even when connected wireless.
> >>>
> >>>>You mentioned port forwarding. Do both machines have private IP
> >>>>addresses?
> >>>
> >>>The Linux Server has assigned a stattic IP address 129.168.xxx.yyy and
> >>>the Win2K laptop receives a dynamic IP address from the routers's DHCP
> >>>server.
> >>>
> >>>>Are the shares out on the Internet somewhere? Perhaps you could try
> >>>>setting up a share on your Win2k machine and making sure that your
> >>>> Linux machine can see and use them, and vice versa.
> >>
> >>I shared a directory on my Win2k machine, but the Linux machine is not
> >>able to browse the local network at all (using Konquerer, I get the
> >>response -> "could not connect to host localhost").
> >>
> >>I can ping from my Win2K box to the Linux machine using the IP address
> >>or the name, but I can't ping from the Linux machine to the Win2K
> >>machine using the Win2K'2 computer name, only the IP address works.
> >>
> >>In the file /etc/resolv.conf I have two nameserver entries: One is
> >>assigned by Roadrunner, the other is the IP address of the Netgear MR314
> >>router.
> >>
> >>Mmmmhhh ???
> >>
> >>
> >>Carsten
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