Unable to connect to SAMBA server( from XP )

Hello,

I'm able to ping my linux machine, which has SAMBA, up and running( smbd & nmbd ), but I'm unable to map a drive using

net use z: \\IP\global.

It reports

System error 53 has occurred. The network path couldn't be found.

What am I doing wrong ? Thanks.

Kramer.

Make sure iptables isn't blocking it. Flush out all the rules to test.

$ iptables -F;
$ iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT;
$ iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT;

See if that helps.

Chris

Chris,

It works ! Great ! Thanks.

But I've one question : what is the impact of this flush as I saw about a screen full of entries when I did a iptables -L, before I flushed it.

Thank you very much.

Interestingly I see that in the old listings( which I flushed ) it is showing as "Accept" against my the IP of my laptop
ACCEPT udp -- laptop_ip anywhere udp spt:domain dpts:1025:65535

oops...

I think its my firewall( iptables ) that's causing the problem.
I cleared the iptable entries and I was able
to view/access the Linux directories thro' Windows.

But after that I had to reboot my Linux machine and now its alienated.

But I do see an try for my laptop's IP in the IP tables' list

ACCEPT udp -- < laptop-ip > anywhere udp spt:domain dpts:1025:65535

Then why is it kicking the requests out ????

Thanks,
Kramer.

You need to open ports 137, 138, 139 in iptables to let SMB traffic through.