Connecting to Samba through a Firewall

[Alex Satrapa]

One alternative is to get a Unix box "inside" or on "your" side of the
firewall to mount the SMB shares, and then export those shares from that
box using Samba. It does mean double-handling, but it gets the job done.

Alex

"Dave J. Andruczyk" wrote:
> > Does anyone have any idea of how to fix the situation so I can connect from
> > my local Windows 95/98 computers to the Samba shares?
> 
> Wingate is a pain to use. It cannot be configured hardly at all to allow
> specific firewall holes.  A linux box with twin netcards using ipfwadm
> (or ipchains on 2.2 kernel) is far more stable, faster and easier to
> manage.b