Forwarding NetBIOS through a Linux Router

[Dragos]

On Friday 25 January 2002 07:25 pm, Colin Wetherbee wrote:
> Paul,
>
> > This help you at all?  I just saw this today actually.
> >
> > Introduction
> > With the Samba NetBIOS forwarder, nbfw, you can browse the local
> > windows network transparently to and from your masqueraded network.
> > This will most likely be of use for people who have Windows machines
> > on a backend network who want to browse the Network Neighbourhood on
> > the 'normal' network though their masquarading firewall.
> >
> > Maybe not what you need - but it might do the trick - here's the link.
> > http://nbfw.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Tell me if it works please!
>
> With my current configuration, setting NBFW up to do reverse NetBIOS
> masquerading would be a colossal task.  There are simply too many
> computers behind the router to specify each one individually, and it
> would be difficult to keep up with all the new ones that show up.
>
> I'm trying to forward NetBIOS through the router in order to do network
> backups.  I guess I may have to just put the backup server on the other
> side of the router.  Wah. :(
>
> Colin
Hello,
not sure if this matches your problem, but I'm able to join my samba domain 
from a remote location through the VPN I set up between the 2 locations;
browsing also works, etc... (I have not yet given it more than few tests, the 
remote location is not yet populated)

dragos