Windows networking and SOCKS proxies

[Jim Watt]

Sorry...I deleted the thread about SOCKS before I realized
I knew the solution...

I checked up on how SMB connections work on an NT workstation
running the Hummingbird SOCKS proxy.  It looks like "net use..."
and its GUI variant don't use the WINSOCK/WINSOCK 2 interface to
make netbios-session (139/tcp) connections.  The machine attempted
to make a direct connection to the remote host.

So what to do?  Set up an SSH daemon on a machine inside the network
that needs the SOCKS proxy for it to be reached.  Get an ssh client that
can tunnel TCP via the ssh connection.  Set up a tunnel for
localhost:139 to <samba machine>:139 with the client.  Make the
ssh connection.  After that, you can do a "net view \\127.0.0.1"
when the ssh connection is up, and see your shares on <samba
machine>.

I'm using Van Dyke's SecureCRT on the client end (http://www.vandyke.com/),
and sshd 1.2.26 from ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/
on the server end.  Since SecureCRT _does_ support SOCKS, this works.

Jim
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