[Samba] Using ssh for samba authentication?

[Igor Bukanov]

Truls Løkholm Bergli wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:20, Igor Bukanov wrote:
> 
>>I use ssh port forwarding to connect to a samba server from Windows
>>2000/ XP clients. But there is an annoying part that I have to enter my
>>password for samba shares after I already authenticated with the server
>>using ssh. Is there any way to setup samba so in the case of ssh
>>connections it would use already authenticated user name and would not
>>ask for any password for shares?
> 
> 
> How do you do the port forwarding?   

Using either cygwin ssh port and running from command prompt on windows 
box:
ssh -L 139:127.0.0.1:139 username at hostname

or via similar configuration using PuTTY

Regards, Igor