[Samba] Re: Openning samba server to the Internet

[Choi Shun-him]

Hello,

Have you tried to tunnel those 137-139 and 445 port over SSH?
Here is a guide to that and it works for me using XP SP2, not sure if it 
is applicable to your windows server environment.

http://www.blisstonia.com/eolson/notes/smboverssh.php

Good luck.
Him

Yoav zuri wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm running samba on a Linux server.
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> I want to login to that samba share from another computer not located in
> that specific network.
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> I want to be able to "open" my samba server so everyone will be able to
> login to it.
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> I'll secure this unsecured option using Firewall, restricting those specific
> ports only for the IP I would like to login from.
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> What's the right way to do it without using VPN? My problem is that I need
> to access it from a Windows server. And using NFS / FTP / RSYNC / SSHFS is
> not an option due to that. 
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> Using a VPN is not an option due to the specific application usage method in
> the Windows side.
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> Thanks a lot in advance,
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> -- Yoav.
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