Hi all. I'm trying to set up one of my Unix machines at home so I can access my stuff there via SMB from the Internet at large (read: from Windows-using clients').
I'm behind two NATting devices-- the lame-p Prestige DSL modem provided by Sprint DSL (a.k.a. Earthlink?) and a more typical home DSL/cable gateway device. I've poked holes in BOTH of these devices on ports 137, 138, 139 AND 445. Only port 139 actually responds to TCP connections (well, only port 139 accepts a telnet, even from localhost. See: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -bash-2.05b# telnet localhost 137 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused -bash-2.05b# telnet localhost 138 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused -bash-2.05b# telnet localhost 139 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> close Connection closed. -bash-2.05b# telnet localhost 445 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It should go without saying that this machine's Samba shares work PERFECTLY WELL within the LAN. ;) Now, from the outside, I can telnet to port 139 on the machine just fine, through both NAT devices. However, when I go Start, Run, \\x.y.z.a\sharename (where "x.y.z.a" is the IP address-- not the FQDN-- of the machine), Windows vomits up this unhelpful message: -------------------------------------------------- \\x.y.z.a\sharename The specified network name is no longer available. -------------------------------------------------- See: http://jlb.twu.net/tmp/unhelpful.png Any ideas? The client machine runs Windows 2000 Pro. -- J. L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba