Connecting to Samba through a Firewall

[Yan Seiner]

You should be able to tell wingate to forward ports 137-139 to your
computer.  I don't remember if Wingate forwards UDP as well as TCP,
though.....

Yan

"Dave J. Andruczyk" wrote:
> 
> > I have Samba installed on a Sun-Sparc UNIX box at a co-location facility.
> > At my office, we have an internal network protected by Wingate firewall
> > software.  I cannot connect from my Windows 95 machine to the Samba share
> > because of the firewall.  However, from the server that has the firewall
> > server (it also has 2 network cards - 1 internal and 1 external), I can
> > connect without any problem.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I'd suggest using  lmhosts to create a static entry to point to the remote
> server. (this is only good if the server's ip NEVER changes, and if you
> only need to do it on a SMALL network. larger networks are better served
> using a WINS server).
> 
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> Instructional Support Associate
> Department of Technology
> Buffalo State College

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