Hi, You don't have to open high-ports. add 137:udp and 138:udp (for netbios-ns and netbios-dgm) to your firewall. An iptstate I just did shows a 137/udp for both src and dest to my WINS server., and various 138/udp all over the subnet. You do have an WINS server running on the network right? If you do your /etc/samba/smb.conf file should have the following wins server = nn.nn.nn.nn where nn.nn.nn.nn is your WINS server. If this Samba server is doing the name serving, then you need to have this line wins support = yes (not commented out) and then you must comment out the wins server = nn.nn.nn.nn line (since you can't be a name server client and server at the same time) Plus you should make sure your domain master = no and preferred master = no or are both commented out (unless you are going to be the domain master or subnet master "browse-list" master.) Here is mine running as a client (notice the comment ";") /etc/samba/smb.conf ---<snip>---- # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS Server ; wins support = yes # WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client # Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both wins server = 192.168.50.127 ---<snip>---- Hope this helps. - Plus FWIW, Network Neighborhood never really did work right even in an all Windows world -- that's why they went with a directory service in W2K. Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: Kyrre Ness Sjobak [mailto:kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 07:19 PM > To: 'For testers of Fedora Core development releases' > Subject: Re: Network Servers (where is my workgroup?) > > *urk* > > I was hoping there was some "easy solution" such as "puch port blah:udp > and blah:tcp open" > > Why does windows need to make things complicated? > > ons, 20.10.2004 kl. 21.20 skrev Matthew Miller: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:15:15PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity: which ports do i have to open to make it work? > > > > Off the top of my head, I think you need to allow all UDP packets destined > > for ports above 1024 that originate from ports 137 or 138. But you may want > > to get confirmation on that from someone who knows what they're talking > > about. I'm lucky enough that I have no need to deal with this "talking to > > Windows" issue in my own life. :) > > > > -- > > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> > > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list >