[Samba] samba ports blocked by isp
Barry Smoke
barry at arhosting.com
Fri Apr 26 05:50:08 GMT 2002
is there something special I need to make this work on both ends....
or should this work by default?
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 07:02, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:55:56PM -0500, Gerald Carter wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Barry Smoke wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to map a drive to a samba share over the internet,
> > > through an isp that blocks the samba ports... I know with samba, I can
> > > specify a port, but what about a windows client? Can I change what port
> > > a windows machine looks to for samba/smb for a particular share only?
> >
> > You really don;t want to do this. It is **so** insecure.
>
> Why is that? As long as you're using encrypted passwords and you're not
> transferring sensitive data, what is insecure about it?
>
> > Setup a VPN it is it necessary to share files using CIFS
> > across the 'Net.
>
> If the ISP only blocks ports 137-139, connecting on port 445 would work,
> provided the client is a Win2k or WinXP box. Works fine on Road Runner
> here. -Nathan
>
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