[Samba] Firewall piercing - The Specified network name is no longer available.

[JLB]

Because an anonymous solution isn't sufficient. I want something easy--
BUT PASSWORD-PROTECTED. (And no, I don't use dictionary-word passwords.)

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Gordon Russell wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:22:48 -0500
> From: Gordon Russell <russell at co.clarke.va.us>
> Cc: JLB <jlb at twu.net>, samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Firewall piercing - The Specified network name is no
>     longer available.
>
> Dude -- Your arrogant attitude towards getting help and resolving your
> problem is not getting you anywhere -- its obviously problematic to pump
>   SMB/CIFS into the internet the way you would like to.  Why don't you
> look at a simpler solution like running an anonymous ftp server and then
> your pathetic windoze users can just type:
>
> ftp://server/directory
>
> POOF
>
> > Please read my points on this sort of "solution" in the past. The whole
> > REASON I want to use Plain Vanilla SMB is so I can walk up to ANY Windoze
> > machine on the entire flippin' Internet and go:
> >
> > Start
> > Run
> > \\IP_ADDRESS\sharename
> > (username)
> > (password)
> >
> > POOF.
>

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J. L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net