[Samba] Port 445 & Port 139 banned

[Alex Satrapa]

On 13 Jul 2004, at 14:06, Wang.Hua wrote:

> 	Because of security reasons, my school has blocked tcp port 445 and 
> 139.
> This make it impossible to for my window xp desktop to the remote 
> samba service on Linux.

The best option is to set up a VPN. Windows XP provides support for 
L2TP over IPSec, so consider compiling IPSec support into your Linux 
server, and run one of the L2TP servers.

This link looks promising: 
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html.

HTH
Alex Satrapa