[Samba] ssh tunneling

[David Powers]

I actually discovered (much to my annoyance) that the ssh tunnel worked
flawlessly with OpenSSH for windows and not at all with puTTY.  I don't know
the reasons behind it yet, but once I switched everything worked exactly as
expected.

-David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Kelly" <nkelly at tarsus.co.uk>
To: "'David Powers'" <david at grayskies.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Samba] ssh tunneling


> I had the same problems David.  A Freeswan VPN was the only way I could
> resolve it.
>
> Noel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Powers [mailto:david at grayskies.net]
> Sent: 29 July 2002 00:38
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] ssh tunneling
>
>
> I have read several HOWTO's online that indicate one should be able to
> access a samba share over an ssh tunnel from a windows box with the
> following steps:
>
> 1.  Stop the File and Print sharing services on the windows box
> 2.  Create an ssh tunnel from the windows box to the samba server (port
139)
> 3.  Connect to the samba server as if it were on 127.0.0.1
>
> Unfortunately, doing this on any of my Windows 2000 professional boxes
> doesn't seem to work at all - I get the message "The network path cannot
be
> found" (I get this with or without file sharing and with or without
NETBIOS
> over TCP/IP turned on in my network settings).  The odd this is that using
> smbclient from my FreeBSD box works without a hitch using the same
strings,
> passwords, ssh settings, etc.  Can anyone give me a hint as to what might
be
> glitching the same connection from a Windows box and/or any other way to
> create a simple encrypted tunnel to a SMB server that would work?
>
> -David Powers
>
>
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