CIFS 9000 Client

[John-Thomas Gaietto]

Hi i'm having an issue while trying to connect my CIFS 9000 client to an NT 4.0 share, which is located on the otherside of a Firewall.

I continue to get this message.

Connecting Server: UNIX: Broken pipe

I've opened up the firewall all the way and still seem to get this issue.

Thanks,

J-T

[Wodisch]

Hello J-T,

what good is a firewall (and its admins) if you "open up all the ports" ???

And using MS SMB protocols through a firewall is NEVER safe!
You would have to permit ports 138 and 139 in both directions for the server-part of the communication (it IS peer-to-peer, after all) and ALL ports for the client-part (MS seem to NOT like being restrictable or even self-restrincting).
And if you work with NT4 or W2K or WXP you will need port 135, too, (and 445 for W2K and WXP) which opens up the door for remote execution!
All protected only by the very week NT-authorization (or NOT protected by means of "Pass-Through Authentization")... :-(

Would it be possible for you to use "scp" (Secure CP) or "rsync" (through "ssh" = Secure SHell), which is considered by most security admins to be much better, and would only need one port (usually 22) through the firewall?

Just my ???0.02,
Wodisc

[John-Thomas Gaietto]

Thank You however your answer wasn't really relevant to the question. The opening of the firewall was to prove that the firewall wasn't preventing the smb shareing.


Thanks,

J-T

[Sanjay_6]

Hi John,

Try this link,

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=f56c63f6074345bebb/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055926670

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Mark Fenton]

J-T,

I hvaen't had the problem you're experiencing, but my experience has been that the O'Reilly book, Using Samba, especially chapter 9 on troubleshooting, has held the answers for every problem I've had so far.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html

best regards.