Add smb ports=139 445 to your smb.conf. It "might" work :)
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> okay james..... I am figuing that this is done at.... I've been looking
> for how to this for A while now. How do you do it? There it is. I found a
> GUI app that did it called 'firestarter'. Unfortunately opening the ports
> didn't help the situation any. ports 137-139 and 445 are now open.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:50 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The error pasted is about name services, not printing. XP being XP, have
>> you tried setting the samba box up for port 139 instead of 445?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> it isn't fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Glad the Plug could fix it!
>>>> On 6 Mar 2012 18:51, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> okay.... I enabled the guest account but that didn't improve the
>>>>> situation any. I checked localhost:631 and the printer is listed. (weird
>>>>> thing, from the laptop it is listed as a different model. It works so I
>>>>> don't really care)
>>>>>
>>>>> ====
>>>>> 1) As you initially asked, your XP account name was changed. Please
>>>>> refer to the enabling of the guest account HowTo in:
>>>>> http://unixwiz.net/techtips/samba-xp-printing.html NOTE: I am
>>>>> assuming that these machines are protected inside your network, since it's
>>>>> usually a BAD IDEA to enable the guest account otherwise. Verify your
>>>>> WORKGROUP and NetBIOS name in XP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please, then, attempt to connect from XP and tail the log and see what
>>>>> Samba is whining about?
>>>>>
>>>>> ====
>>>>> Not sure of the logs name. Can you help me out? I also don't know
>>>>> about the net
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