[Samba] Using ssh for samba authentication?

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:29:59 +0100, "Truls Løkholm Bergli"
<Truls.L.Bergli at cc.uit.no> said:
> 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