I recently installed centos 4.1 and I'm trying to get samba working on it to serve windows boxes on a lan. I configured samba on the centos server using the graphical samba server configuration tool, which is similar to the samba setup on redhat 9 that I have successfully setup in the past. I setup samba user names and passwords with the same user names and passwords used on the win boxes.
I'm not able to access any shared samba folders from win boxes on the lan. I disabled the firewall on the centos server using the graphical security level configuration tool but I still can't access the samba shares. When I use a win box to connect to samba it will not complete the connection. It acts like the firewall is still running.
I disabled iptables on the centos server using the graphical services configuration tool but I still can't access the samba shares.
I can ping the centos server from linux and windows boxes on the lan. The centos server can ping other machines on the lan and can access the internet.
When I try to telnet into the centos server from win and linux boxes on the lan I get these messages:
On linux boxes: "Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"
On win boxes: Connecting To 192.168.1.2...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
Can anyone tell me what Im doing wrong or what I need to do to get samba working on centos?
Thanks in advance,
Ken
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On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:43 -0700, Ken Plumley wrote:
I recently installed centos 4.1 and I'm trying to get samba working on it to serve windows boxes on a lan. I configured samba on the centos server using the graphical samba server configuration tool, which is similar to the samba setup on redhat 9 that I have successfully setup in the past. I setup samba user names and passwords with the same user names and passwords used on the win boxes.
I'm not able to access any shared samba folders from win boxes on the lan. I disabled the firewall on the centos server using the graphical security level configuration tool but I still can't access the samba shares. When I use a win box to connect to samba it will not complete the connection. It acts like the firewall is still running.
I disabled iptables on the centos server using the graphical services configuration tool but I still can't access the samba shares.
I can ping the centos server from linux and windows boxes on the lan. The centos server can ping other machines on the lan and can access the internet.
When I try to telnet into the centos server from win and linux boxes on the lan I get these messages:
On linux boxes: "Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"
On win boxes: “Connecting To 192.168.1.2...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.”
Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong or what I need to do to get samba working on centos?
---- netbios / smb doesn't use port 23, that's the port for telnet.
Telnet server is by default (by design, by good practice not installed).
If you want to telnet into netbios port, you would want to telnet to port 139 but recognize that windows/samba etc. expect things to be encrypted which is gonna add to the difficulty.
telnet 192.168.1.2 139
SO the better thing to do is to try to connect...
on the server,
smbclient -L localhost -U USERNAME
it will ask for the password (samba passwd) of the USERNAME
then from another Linux box (I am gathering you have more than 1)...
smbclient -L 192.168.1.2 -U USERNAME
and from Windows machine you can then connect I would think...
Craig
When I try to telnet into the centos server from win and linux boxes on the lan I get these messages:
On linux boxes: "Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"
On win boxes: Connecting To 192.168.1.2...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
That is because you do not have a telnet server running. If you `telnet HOSTNAME` you are not connecting to the same ports that Samba/Windows use.
Can anyone tell me what Im doing wrong or what I need to do to get samba working on centos?
If you run `smbclient -L 127.0.0.1` on the samba server, do you see anything? Are you sure the smb and if needed winbind services started? Did you enable SELinux by chance? Can you offer up your smb.conf? Have you tried running nmap against 192.168.1.2 to see what ports are open?
Thanks,
~Dan
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