[Samba] Unable tp map to a samba share from home

[Art Saucedo]

Jon Niehof wrote:

> > I have a filtered restriction on port 139 Why ?
> *puts on mindreader cap*
>
> I suspect what you're trying to say is that you have a samba
> server running at home (as a guess--on comcast's cable modem
> service) and are trying to access it remotely, but it fails
> because port 139 is filtered.
>
> *If* that is the case, I would further suspect that comcast
> is intentionally filtering smb/cifs traffic on their net so
> as to somewhat impede rampant file trading and also to
> protect folk who run unsecured windows machines on their
> networks. Those boxes get rooted, customers blame comcast.
> Worse, those boxes become DDoS zombies, *everyone* blames
> comcast.
>
> SMB over the Internet is a Bad Idea IMO. Look into a VPN or
> SSH tunnel if you *really* need it.

You  are probably correct,  my intentions are (a) "vpn" which works
fine, (b) possibly SAMBA over SSL and (c) If am able to get stunnel to
encapsulate 901 calls, why can I do the same for port 139?

Art.S - Loyola University Chicago