samba - remote connection

Question

I have a samba-server. Can connect to it from my local network with no problem.
Can see that 139 and 445 port are opened. Site "speed-tester.info" also tells me that these ports are opened.
BUT when I scan my server nmap doesnt show me these ports!

have this string in smb.conf, so samba should listen external interface:

interfaces = lo0 msk*

I tried to add "\\89.179.246.174\disk_1" to my network in windows 7 but it failed.
Please help. What is wrong?

Answer 1

First, your line interfaces = lo0 msk* does not look right to me. I've never come across an OS that names its NIC devices with a 'msk*' convention.

Second, get aware of the correct syntax for the interfaces = ... statement in smb.conf. Here is my summary of it:

• ... may hold one or several network interface names
• ... may hold one or several IP addresses
• ... may hold one or several hostnames
• ... may hold one or several IPaddress/netmask pairs
• ... may hold one or several broadcast/netmask pairs
• ... may hold a mixture of all of the above

More details to be found in man smb.conf. Assuming that 89.179.246.174 is the address of your Samba server, the following should do what you want:

interfaces = lo0 89.170.246.174

Answer 2

I was tired trying to connect my samba shares to my pc remotely.
So I found for myself 2 other solutions:

• Use expandrive (binds drive to explorer over ssh, but ssh slows down connection)
• Use hamachi

pipitas, thanks anyway!