[Wylug-help] LAN/samba problems

[Andrew J Cole]

Anne,

Your initial mail indicated that nmbd had been blown away without removing
its pid file (on the server).  You will find a log.nmbd (and log.smbd)
on the server (usually in /usr/local/samba/var).  Its just possible that
log.nmbd might be of help to determine the cause.

You should be able to use swat to start nmbd (it will also show you the
connections etc.).

You need nmbd running to handle NetBIOS over IP requests.

>Nothing after that.  I guess that I had an existing set of mounts when the=
>=20
>firewall was activated, but it wouldn't allow a new connection.  Does that=
>=20
>sound right?  If so, I've got iptables problems.

Indeed any firwall between you and your server will need to pass ports

netbios-ns      137/tcp                         # NETBIOS Name Service
netbios-ns      137/udp
netbios-dgm     138/tcp                         # NETBIOS Datagram Service
netbios-dgm     138/udp
netbios-ssn     139/tcp                         # NETBIOS session service
netbios-ssn     139/udp

and 

swat            901/tcp                         # Samba Web Administration Tool

Aren't both client and server on your local network?

Andrew