In a recent thread there were a few of us that were experiencing
problems accessing windows and samba servers via the Network Servers
item in the main menu under FC2.
I believed this to be a problem with Nautilus since the same
configuration for samba worked fine under FC1. There appeared to be
some improvement after modifying some of the samba configuration
options.
The recent update to samba however appears to have changed the behavior
significantly and possibly improved the results. When the network
servers item is selected the window now not only contains the Windows
Network icon but it also includes each of the servers on the network. Selecting the Windows Network item displays the same set of servers as
in the main window.
There still appears to be some issue with iptables and the Network
Servers item. With iptables disabled it appears to work. As soon as
iptables is enabled however even with 137,138,139, and 445.
It is interesting that the new version of samba changed the results significantly.
That is interesting. Especially since KDE's konsole still continues to work properly at this end.
BTW: I'm not seeing any problems with firewall rules. My FC2 DMZ system displays identical results (using nautilus) as my FC2 system located on my private LAN. The only difference between the two systems is I have the DMZ/samba system configured to win the local master browser election on DMZ subnet. All hosts on both networks (Windows or Linux) are configured to register with a single WINS server.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch... I'm going to upgrade samba and see if I see the same results. Thanks for the update.
Steve Cowles
