CENTOS 7/Win10 unable to access SMB share from windows/mac

Question

I am able to access my SMB on the linux box itself with smbclient with

smbclient -U user //server/winbkup

or mounting with the file explore GUI.

my windows computer is on WORKGROUP, and on linux side I created the username and did smbpasswd -a NEWUSER

here is what my smb.conf looks like (pasting global the custom share)

[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = SERVER security = user

passdb backend = tdbsam

printing = cups
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
cups options = raw

[winbkup] path = /mnt/storage/winbkup read only = no browseable = yes valid users = NEWUSER [osxbkup] path = /mnt/storage/osxbkup read only = no browseable = yes valid users = NEWUSER

For permission and ownership I did.

chmod 775 /mnt/storage/winbkup chown NEWUSER:NEWUSER /mnt/storage/winbkup

same for the osxfolder

Also in windows host file I added the ip address to the hostname of the linux box, but this is just DNS, i realized that.

And I made sure SMB 1.0 / CIFS feature is enabled on Windows 10

I tried mapping by \SERVER\winbkup or \IP\winbkup or just by \SERVER or \IP

and from centos I can do smb://server/winbkup. Even tried on my mac with smb://IP/winbkup/ or with hostname, or smb://NEWUSER:*@

no luck, it seems like I can't reach the server. Could this be a firewall Issue? Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Turns out it was firewall if anyone else is having issue try these two commands

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=samba

firewall-cmd --reload

I would like to give credit to this blog https://www.tecmint.com/install-samba4-on-centos-7-for-file-sharing-on-windows/

althought i did not use those configuration but that two commands did the trick.