On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:23:00PM +0530, irfaan khan wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for post, well I mean by nearest area to my city where my friends > can access it and long distance mean by another state or country. > > On the same IP i am running my web server and never got complain about > inaccessibility. samba ports are directly open by firewall and I am not > using any kind of VPN. > > Any guess??? > > Thanks and regards, > irfee > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:06 PM, <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:37:57AM -0700, Jeremiah Bess wrote: > > * *What do you mean nearest area and long distance? Nearest area > meaning same > > * *city or plugged into the same network? And how exactly are you > trying to > > * *access samba? Are Samba ports open on your network firewall (bad > idea), or > > * *are you using VPN? The only thing distance does is change your IP > address > > * *(samba can be locked down by IP, but unlikely in this situation), > and your > > * *ping time (causing connection timeouts). > > > > * *Jeremiah E. Bess > > * *Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > > * *On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 03:53, [1][2][email protected] > > * *<[2][3][email protected]> wrote: > > > > * * *Hi, > > > > * * *I have a strange issue and wanted some help to resolve , I had > > * * *searched on google but couldn't found suitable answer for the > same. > > > > * * *Well, Let you know the scenario and details of my setup. > > > > * * *1. I am using Centos 5.4 x86 based operating system > > * * *2. samba version samba-3.0.33-3.15. > > * * *3. I have a 1 mbps internet line. > > * * *4. I can access samba server from nearest area, but not from far > > * * *distance. > > > > * * *why is to so or do I have to make any changes in my smb.conf? > > > > * * *Thanks in advance .... > > > > * * *k.irfee > > * * *-- > > * * *You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > Users > > * * *Group. > > * * *To post a message, send email to > [3][4][email protected] > > * * *To unsubscribe, send email to > > * * *[4][5][email protected] > > * * *For more options, visit our group at > > * * *[5][6]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > * *-- > > * *You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > Users > > * *Group. > > * *To post a message, send email to > [7][email protected] > > * *To unsubscribe, send email to > [8][email protected] > > * *For more options, visit our group at > > * *[6][9]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > References > > > > * *Visible links > > * *1. mailto:[10][email protected] > > * *2. mailto:[11][email protected] > > * *3. mailto:[12][email protected] > > * *4. mailto:[13][email protected] > > * *5. [14]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > * *6. [15]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > My guess is you're not on the same network, and will need a vpn. *The > only time TCP timeouts are going to actually *prevent* samba connections > is when you're on a lossy medium (poor reception wifi), > or on a high latency network (cellular or satellite connection). > > As Jeremiah said, we need details. *What's the distance? can you connect > to any other (non-samba) services? Are your routing tables setup right? > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [16][email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [17][email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [18]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [19]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. mailto:[email protected] > 5. mailto:[email protected] > 6. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 7. mailto:[email protected] > 8. mailto:[email protected] > 9. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 10. mailto:[email protected] > 11. mailto:[email protected] > 12. mailto:[email protected] > 13. mailto:[email protected] > 14. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 15. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 16. mailto:[email protected] > 17. mailto:[email protected] > 18. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 19. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup Well, what you're doing is dangerous. You really shouldn't open SMB to the world.
That said, an ISP is probably blocking the sharing of files. It only takes one hop that's blocking the ports. Why not use a vpn? Or at least an ssh tunnel? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
