From: Tony Williams 

If you open up "Sharing" in System Prefs you'll see a
"Firewall" tab. You need to enable Windows File Sharing, which
will unblock port 139.

This is for 10.2 - it may be a little different on earlier versions but the
principle's the same: SMB needs port 139 open.

BTW, how did you do the scan?

--
Tony

Adam Flinton wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:3e03f4f1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>>A) How do I do smb filesharing?
>>
>>That should just work. Do you have any ports blocked?
>>
>
>
> I having done a scan ....
>
> TCP ports open:
>
> 22 (SSH)
> 427 (SLP - Service Locatin Protocol)
> 548 ( AFP - Apple File Share)
>
> UDP:
>
> 514 (syslog)
>
> Nothing re smb that I can see.....Is "AppleTalk" the same as
SMB? as I've
> just noticed that that it ain't enabled in the Network settings?
>
> .....hummm just re run the scan & unless it's not started yet.....no change
> in the open ports....
>
>
>
> Adam
>
>

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