Hello Eero, Friday, January 22, 2010, 1:07:30 AM, you wrote:
I forgot to mention - I used DNS name available all over the Internet like \\www.whatever.com It just won't work though I can resolve www.whatever.com using nslookup on windows machine and I can ping it and traceroute it, all so server's tcp ports are available (not sure about UDP ones) but they should be as well. I can access file server's HTTP but still \\www.whatever.com would produce "Windows could not find www.whatever.com" It looks like the problem relates to NAT|samba binding, I had a similar configuration but the file server had a direct IP address and I could access it via \\www.whatever.com, the funny thing is that I couldn't access it via IP address but \\HOSTNAME always worked for it. EV> 2010/1/21 Igor <sp...@online.ru>: >> Hello All, >> >> I have a strange problem regarding samba 3.0.37 >> >> I have samba server installed in the local network behind NAT, the >> router iptables are configured as follows: >> >> #samba >> $IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE -p udp -d $INET_IP -m multiport >> --dports 137,138 -j DNAT --to-destination $FILESERV >> $IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -d $INET_IP -m multiport >> --dports 139,145 -j DNAT --to-destination $FILESERV >> >> #samba >> $IPT -A FORWARD -p udp -m state --state NEW -i $INET_IFACE -d $FILESERV -m >> multiport --dports 137,138 -j ACCEPT >> $IPT -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW -i $INET_IFACE -d $FILESERV -m >> multiport --dports 139,145 -j ACCEPT >> >> The samba server is working fine and both smbd and nmbd are started. I >> have no problems accessing samba shares from local network using \\IP or >> \\HOSTNAME >> >> But when I try to access samba from outside of my network I can only >> use \\IP, any attempt to use \\HOSTNAME results in "Windows couldn't >> find HOSTNAME..." message, though HOSTNAME on windows machine is resolved >> correctly. >> >> I thought it might be related to "interfaces" option, so I added >> router address into it but still cannot access samba by HOSTNAME from >> outside of the network. I all so sure that the problem doesn't relate to >> one particular windows setup since I can reproduce the problem on all >> windows machines outside local network. >> >> From samba log files it looks like there is no connection comes when >> \\HOSTNAME is used on windows computers. >> >> >> I would appreciate if someone could shed a light upon the problem. >> Thanks in advance. EV> try \\fully.qualified.dns.name.of.samba.server EV> -- EV> Eero -- www.rol.ru Best regards, Igor mailto:sp...@online.ru -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba