Routing or pass-through?
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Thank you johnpoz - it's like learning a new foreign language! I will look at this later today and report back.
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heheeh - yeah sure it can seem like that..
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OK, so I've checked samba on the same vlan as the server and it worked first time, so something's being blocked (I guess). If I want access samba from my wireless LAN, for instance, How do I enable tcp 445? .. current rules are below. The samba server is on the LAN
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Hi sorry to bump this message. Can anyone tell me how to enable tcp on port 445? I have tried to work it out but I'm really not quite sure where it's done. Thank you
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You have an ANY ANY rule - so yeah tcp 445 is open.. If you can not access the shares, then look to firewall running on where the shares are.. Out of the box windows firewall is not going to allow access to its shares from IPs other than its on local network.
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Hm, thank you for the post. I'm running Linux so there isn't a firewall running.
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Linux has firewalls ;) So you meant to say your not running one ;)
So your accessing it how \IPaddress of the samba server? Or \hostname and its not resolving?
Your not going to be able to resolve a hostname via broadcast across segments. So like I said before your going to have to use fqdn or ipaddress.
What does your samba.conf look like.. Do you have this other network in your hosts allow statement? If not then no you wouldn't be able to access it.
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OK, I'll check everything tomorrow. Thank you. Yes, I know Linux has firewalls …. but unlike windoze it doesn't install one without you asking for it. :)
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Well that would depend on the distro ;) But I hear ya…
My guess would be your host allow, if that has your network in. Then do a simple sniff on pfsense. Do you see your traffic going to your samba host, do you see a reply? This can even show if you get an answer to why your denied access, etc.
Do packet capture on your lan interface.. Use the IP address of your samba box as filter.. Then try and connect from your wifi network.. Do you see traffic? Do you see syn,ack back? Load it up in wireshark and see what is going on. If you don't see traffic going there, then sniff on your wifi interface do you see the client sending the traffic.
If you see the syn but not the syn,ack back when sniffing on the lan.. Then its your samba box or your sending to the wrong mac, etc..
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It's been a while, I know. Yes, I can connect directly by IP address but I can't see the Samba share. I'll come back with some more thoughts about my requirements in a few days ..
