On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:46, Jasin #14 wrote: > or could it be a problem that i have a firewall installed? what should i > do and what do i configure? thanks... > > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:44, Jasin #14 wrote: > > what seems to be the problem? when i go to Network Servers, it displays > > an error cannot contact master browser... but when i go to > > smb://hostname of any computer it displays the contents.. what seems to > > be the proB? > -- i'll just copy-paste what i already replied for someone else. <paste> first of all, i believe you need one of the machines to become the master for netbios/wins in your lan. second, you need to make sure you have the rule: iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m state --state NEW -m udp --sport 137 -j ACCEPT nautilus will try to connect to port 137/udp, and also receives responses from port 137/udp, so you basically have to open up 137 on your machine. i hope this helps somehow. dex <end-paste>
