[Samba] Samba over ssh ?

Madhusudan Singh singh.madhusudan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 04:25:58 GMT 2005


On Thursday 31 March 2005 16:29, Andrew Bartlett wrote: 

> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:37 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >  I need to make my samba server available over the internet to a mobile
> > user base.
> >
> >  I was wondering if samba could be run over ssh (at both client and
> > server ends). I am not comfortable about opening ports 139 and 445.
>
> The standard answer is to use a VPN.
>
> Andrew Bartlett

Thanks. Would CIPE be an appropriate solution ? I am beginning to read up on 
it. Does it work the following way :

Linux Server : Samba (139,445) -- 22 -------- Internet -------- 22 -- Windows

? (numbers are port numbers)


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