Sorry to address such an old and obsolete system. A customer is migrating up from Centos 6 but needs to keep it working a little while longer.
The issue now is that Windows users are unable to map a drive letter to a Centos directory. When they go to map the drive (to "\ip\public"), Windows says the connection is rejected, with no further details. I presume some configuration is set wrong but I haven't been able to find it after reading man pages and Google stuff.
Samba is installed and so is samba-swat. But I can't get port 901 open so I can verify proper configuration of SMB. Relevant lines in current files:
/etc/services: swat 901/tcp smpnameres # Samba Web Administration Tool
/etc/samba/smb.conf: [/public] path = /public public = yes writable = yes printable = yes write list = +users
iptables -L: -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 901 -j ACCEPT
But: $ nmap -sT -p901 localhost PORT STATE SERVICE 901/tcp closed samba-swat
Please tell me what I've missed or give a pointer to better help.