Setting up a file server

[Brian McKee]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using ubuntu server for setting up a file server at home.
>
> If I try to connect to the samba service on the server, I can see the dirs
> shared. When I try the same command from a remote PC, I get
>
> # smbclient -NL 192.168.62.1
>
> timeout connecting to 192.168.62.1:445
>
> How can I open up that port?

Step one is to check connectivity.
Can you ping it from the client?
If so, did you install a firewall on the server?

HTH
Brian