[linux-cifs-client] Mount over SSH tunnel

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 12:26:36 GMT 2008


On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:25:15 -0400
cifs.20.DrLock at spamgourmet.com wrote:

> I am trying to pass a samba mount through an SSH tunnel to my file
> server. The basic setup is:
> 
> Linux Client -- |Firewall| -- Windows File Server
> 
> The Windows File Server is running OpenSSH for Windows (BTW freeSSHd
> has a tunneling bug and won't work) and can accept tunnels and local
> forwarding.
> I can create the tunnel, I can even browse the file server with
> smbclient, but I can't get it to mount the samba share. My slightly
> modified terminal session is:
>   myuser at linuxclient:~$ ssh -N -f -L 20139:10.0.0.1:139 magni.domain.com
>   myuser at magni.domain.com's password:

Most modern SMB servers use port 445. Try changing your setup to use
that instead.

>   myuser at linuxclient:~$ smbclient //magni/backups -p 20139 -U myuser
> -I 127.0.0.1
>   Password:
>   Domain=[MAGNI] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>   smb: \> ls
>   . D 0 Fri Dec 22 11:16:38 2006
>   .. D 0 Fri Dec 22 11:16:38 2006
>   .Trash-myuser DH 0 Mon Feb 26 15:31:21 2007
> 
>   48618 blocks of size 4194304. 9347 blocks available
>   smb: \> exit
>   myuser at linuxclient:~$ sudo mount -t smbfs //magni/backups /mnt/bak/
> -o port=20139,ip=127.0.0.1,username=myuser
>   Password:
>   mount error 112 = Host is down
>   Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> 
> 10.0.0.1 is a loopback device on the Windows file server
> 
> Why can't CIFS talk to the host when smbclient can? This does not seem
> to be a new problem. I have found many other people with the same
> issue:
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2006-November/001594.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2004-September/000379.html
> 
> But I haven't found any solutions. Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
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