[Solved] Samba accross the internet (& NFS)

[Blue|Fusion]

Hello,

I am helping out a friend with a new server he got to backup client data, and wants to use Samba for the backup.

I have configured Samba on the backup server with the following:

# Global Parameters

workgroup = backup
netbios aliases = pocket
encrypt passwords = yes
interfaces = xx.xx.xx.xx
security = SHARE
hosts allow = <remote server ip>

[homes]
read only = no
browseable = no

[backup]
path = /home/backup
browseable = yes
read only = no
write list = backup
valid users = backup

The service starts successfully and there are no firewalls or iptable rules setup yet, however this is what I get when I try to connect remotely:

root@solaris [~]# smbmount //xx.xx.xx.xx/ /mnt/test -o username=backup,password=******
timeout connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx:445
timeout connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx:139
Error connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx (Operation already in progress)
17160: Connection to xx.xx.xx.xx failed
SMB connection failed

Any idea how I can get this to work?

Any help appreciated!

[lakerdonald]

Is this server on some sort of LAN?

[Blue|Fusion]

Both servers are in a data center. The only IPs they have are the global IPs on eth0:1, eth0:2, etc.).

[lakerdonald]

so they aren't 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x?
are they behind any sort of NAT firewall or router?

[Blue|Fusion]

They have 10.x.x.x on the router they are on, however they are both on different routers, and I checked ifconfig and nothing was displayed with that IP and only way to get it is to get the guy to tell me what it says in his server admin panel at the data center, but it wouldn't help anyway.

Perhaps Samba isn't the way to go accross a network like this? I am trying with NFS now and gotten more success, however I now have a problem with that...

I have it mounted and the /etc/hosts.deny/allow are setup and /etc/exports, and the daemons all started. I mounted it on the client server (actually my home pc at the moment), but I can no access it.

ls -al:

[root@localhost mnt]# ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 8 09:56 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root adm 4096 Dec 8 09:52 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 7 05:37 cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 7 05:37 cdrom2/
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 8 09:52 floppy/
drwx------ 2 503 503 4096 Dec 8 08:58 test/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 7 13:16 windows/

I can't chmod or chown /mnt/test (the mount point). What is wrong with that?

[Blue|Fusion]

Solved:

I had to add no_root_squash option to /etc/exports.