samba - Feb 2003 - Difficulties getting Windows 2000 and NT working with Samba on Redhat 8

Having set up the Windows clients and Samba (version 2.2.5-10) with a
'tmp' share the share cannot be accessed from the Windows clients.

On the Windows clients, after attempting to map a network drive to the Samba
share using Windows Explorer the message
 'No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the remote
system'
is diplayed.

I believe I have checked all the settings and get the smb prompt successfully on
the Samba server using the Windows user login using  'smbclient //server/tmp
-U username'
after inputting the required password.

Can someone please suggest what may be wrong?
Regards
Roger Harden

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Roger Harden wrote:
> Having set up the Windows clients and Samba (version 2.2.5-10) with a
> 'tmp' share the share cannot be accessed from the Windows clients.
>
> On the Windows clients, after attempting to map a network drive to the
> Samba share using Windows Explorer the message
>  'No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the
remote system'
> is diplayed.
>
> I believe I have checked all the settings and get the smb prompt
> successfully on the Samba server using the Windows user login using
> 'smbclient //server/tmp -U username' after inputting the required
> password.
>
> Can someone please suggest what may be wrong?
Did you disable the firewall?

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:40:46PM -0000, Roger Harden
wrote:
> Having set up the Windows clients and Samba (version 2.2.5-10) with a
> 'tmp' share the share cannot be accessed from the Windows clients.
> 
> On the Windows clients, after attempting to map a network drive to the
> Samba share using Windows Explorer the message
>  'No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the
>  remote system'
> is diplayed.
> 
> I believe I have checked all the settings and get the smb prompt
> successfully on the Samba server using the Windows user login using
> 'smbclient //server/tmp -U username' after inputting the required
> password.
Have you verified that the server does not have firewall rules
configured? Red Hat's default installation sets up some default rules if
you say "yes, I want a secure machine" but doesn't exactly tell
you what
it's doing, so it's a fairly common problem.

-- 
Michael Heironimus