Browsing a Samba server in Windows

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Browsing a Samba server in Windows

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I have recently changed my IP range from a NAT connection to NoNAT-8. Due to this my web server now has its own external IP address. But this is causing problem trying to access the Samba server running on the web server. I've tried to access it in various ways such as opening '\\<web server IP>', '\\<WS IP>:445 but it doesn't ever seem to get there. The port is open and I'm able to telnet into that port from my Windows box and I'm able to port scan it and see the Samba port open.
Before I had a NoNAT connection I accessed it with '\\<local IP>' with no problems.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Post by DaveTheAve »

Not sure I completely understand your situation but if your trying to access samba like: "\\<External IP>" your got gonna get very far. Samba only works on LANs, Domains, and VPNs, not via Internet; that's what (S)FTP is for.
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Post by volka »

Do you have an interface statement in your smb.conf?

see also: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/man ... onf.5.html
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