On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:39:30 -0500, Chris Black <shademage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all! > I just have gotten my FC3 based machine running and seem to have some little > quirk somewhere. > I can not seem to be able to browse the machines in the samba network > through the Lan neighborhood at all. I can however get them to show if I do > smb://machinename. > On the windows side everything works just fine from the win XPsp2 machines > and the Win2K server. Yeah, I don't think I've seen that work with FC either. I haven't tried to get it working, though, so I don't know what is going on. Like you said, specifying the machine name works. > > Pinging works. > > To share files and printers already on the windows machines I had to disable > the Windows XP firewall and then I could share/connect to those. So another > question is what ports need to be opened through the Windows firewall for > Samba to operate? There was no such problem on the Win2K server and the > software firewall on it. Open up the firewall settings (Start->Settings->Control Panel->Windows Firewall), go to the Exceptions tab and check the "File and Printer Sharing" check box. I think that should get you going. You can click on the "Edit..." button with that line checked to which ports this opens. > Thanks for any assistance. No problem. Jonathan P.S. Many people don't like it when someone sends HTML mail to the list. Please try to send plain text mail in the future.
