smbclient timing out

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Published on 2009-08-27T21:46:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 12:01 UTC
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I am trying to set up a Samba share on a Centos machine. I want to connect to this server using smbclient on OS X. Here is what happens:

> smbclient -L X.X.X.X
timeout connecting to X.X.X.X:445
timeout connecting to X.X.X.X:139
Error connecting to X.X.X.X (Operation already in progress)
Connection to X.X.X.X failed

What could be going wrong? Here is my iptables dump on the Centos machine (the server):

> iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           
REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            127.0.0.0/8         reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:445 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:3000 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:80 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:443 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:22 
ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 8 
REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:3000

And finally, my smb.conf:

[global]
workgroup = workgroup
security = SHARE
load printers = No
default service = global
path = /home
available = No
encrypt passwords = yes

[share]
writeable = yes
admin users = myusername
path = /home/myhome/
force user = root
valid users = myusername
public = yes
available = yes

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