[Samba] Serving Samba through a Firewall

jan jan at seismo.ifg.ethz.ch
Thu Mar 14 07:50:06 GMT 2002


hmm seems to be difficult to set up ...

http://nbfw.sourceforge.net/

regards,

jan

Gilbert C Healton wrote:

>B
>I have been trying to do something like this as well. From what I have
>been reading a WINS server might do the trick, but the network in
>question does NOT have a WINS server.  I configured Samba to be a WINS
>server (via swat), but the clients still do not browse across the
>NAT/Firewall system.  I have already opened the ports to the outside
>world.
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>On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>
>>>I am looking to serve a SAMBA filesystems to client at the other side of a 
>>>firewall, does anyone know what ports/services, need to be opened just to 
>>>deliver the filesystem. The client will initiate the connection and 
>>>hopefully use TCP, not UDP ( is that possible)
>>>
>>For most stuff, opening 137,138,139 would fit, I think. 
>>Though broadcasting and such won't work through a firewall...
>>
>>jelmer
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