On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sounds like you have bitten off a big chunk... first of all, can you map > the drive on the local network? you need port 135 open across all your > routers/firewalls, and i'm guessing if it's a real firewall 135 will > definitly be closed...
135 is not required for drive mapping, nor name resolution. It is the DCERPC endpoint mapper port. > if this is just a once off thing, or not used much have you considered using > winscp? it's a remote/local copy freebie that uses ssh. i use it quite a > bit when i can't be bothered using samba, or it's a brand new box... > i'm assuming you use ssh here not telnet? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sims, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:02 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [Samba] Newbie: Samba and Networks > > > Folks, > > Installing samba 2.2.8a on a Solaris 2.8 machine for the purpose of mounting > shared Unix file systems on W2K clients. > > Completed basic install, and tested OK on the same network. > > However, when the W2K boxes are on a separate network, mapping the drive or > using net use on the W2K box results in the dreaded "The network path was > not found." message.. Traffic travels through at least four routers and two > firewalls between the W2K box and the Solaris server. Physically, these > machines are in different cities. I can ping both ways using ports 137-139, > and 445. Ftp and telnet work fine. CIFS between different cities is always going to be painful, to say the least. I think the ports are correct, but how are you doing name resolution? Only IP or DNS names are going to make sense here. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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