Re: [SLUG] Can't find SAMBA shares using WAN

From: Carsten Dannat (suncoastlug@dannat.com)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 00:36:47 EDT


Hi Adrian,
good idea, will check it and post my results.

-Carsten

Adrian deLisser wrote:
> Carsten,
>
> With the netgear router configured to forward all requests, check to see
> if the netbios requests (from the Internet) actually make it to your
> Linux machine. Good candidates are tcpdump or ethereal.
>
> -Adrian
>
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 22:14, Carsten Dannat 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



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