A big reason would be that lots of worms propagate via netbios ports so they block those. Mounting samba shares over the Internet without VPN protection is a very foolish task.
"James Saxon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I HAD Verizon ONLINE. I was ABLE to mount samba served machines from the internet... eg \\strange.dreamhost.com\ from my XP box. > > I switched to Verizon AVENUE. Now I can't. (When I go through a VPN, though, I am able to mount the directory going around Verizon > Avenue's network) > > I'm thinking this is a port restriction that Verizon Avenue has going on. > > I'm trying to explain to the verizon avenue engineers what's going on here but I don't know how to further diagnose the problem. I > don't know the ports needed or what protocols it's using... > > Any assistance would be most excellent! > > Thanks > > James Saxon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
