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Be blessed in advance for the help !
I am quite a newbie...
I have troubles connecting winXP to my OSX server share over a distant network
No problem while in local network
No problem to connect via AFP from OSX.3 client (in local or over the distant network)
No problem to reach the server via http (so no DNS problems i guess)
But invariably get the message (aproximatively translated from french... 
) "The network share cannot be reached" or "The folder you entered is not valid. Chose another one"
So I don't understand...
I surely have tried to open all ports in the firewall for the time of a try... (well, i think i did what had to be done for that...)
As you guess, suggestions are welcome !
Thanks in advance
PS I remind you that i am quite new at this, so please, be concrete... As he was saying Explain me this once again as if i was a 4 years old kid... Thank you for that too...
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I am also having this problem. XP users can connect to the SMB share point in OS X (10.2.8) server from inside the LAN, but not outside. My firewall policies are accurate, as far as I can tell; I've opened up 445, 137, 138, 139 for udp and tcp. I can access the server from outside the LAN under AFP, FTP, and other protocols, but not for SMB!
What the heck is going on?
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Hi!
i am both glad and sorry of not being by myself anymore...
i have to say i haven't found the solution yet, and i would very much appreciate any information
i have been told it might be a netbios problem, but i haven't figured out what that meant exactly
but things is still to easy...
while working on this and watching closely firewall logs I have seen how risky it is to simply leave these ports open so we really should try to use VPN to give minimum security to this
I have managed to create a PPTP between Panther Server and OSX, but i still don't know if it really works...
I really hope to get through this, let's work together !
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We have the very same problems here. XServe hosting SMB shares that local clients can access, but others cannot.
It may have something to do with The Advanced Tab in Server Admin. Check to see if both "Workgroup master Browser" (local subnet) and "Domain Master Browser" (multiple subnets) are checked. My "My Domain Master Browser" was unchecked.
I haven't tested it, but will report back when I do. If it doesn't work I think I'll try setting up a VPN for my Out of office Win users to login and get a local IP.
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Out of curiosity, are you attempting to connect right over the Internet? Many broadband ISPs will block the SMB ports (139/tcp, 137/udp, etc) to keep users from seeing each others' computers in Windows Network Neighborhood. Because of this, it is not possible to connect to remote Windows servers (or *nix servers providing SMB services) if either end of the connection is on such an ISP.
The solution would be to tunnel the SMB traffic over a VPN connection.
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Out of curiosity, are you attempting to connect right over the Internet? Many broadband ISPs will block the SMB ports (139/tcp, 137/udp, etc) to keep users from seeing each others' computers in Windows Network Neighborhood. Because of this, it is not possible to connect to remote Windows servers (or *nix servers providing SMB services) if either end of the connection is on such an ISP.
The solution would be to tunnel the SMB traffic over a VPN connection.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 
jldera !
You are right I have tried port scan from 136 to 140 : nothing is going through port 139 => no Windows File Service...
so many hours searching...
thanks for the solution too (although VPN from Win XP to Panther Server is not that easy... 
)
Thanks again
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Wow, I spent major time trying to figure this one out. Doesn't almost everybody need access to shared rives from work at home?
Is there some kind of tutorial out there (that works) for setting up Panther's VPN service? I tried it and it just doesn't work.
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