[Samba] Samba over SSH to Windows Vista

[Richard D. Morey]

Well, it looks like I needed to forward port 445. I have it working now. 
Thanks!



Charles Bueche wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would check to forward port 445. XP tries this one before 139 and 
> friends.
> 
> Are you sure that your remote Samba listen on 127.0.0.1 ?
> 
> Show us your smb.conf
> 
> Charles
> 
> On 5 mars 07, at 07:47, Richard D. Morey wrote:
> 
>> After having scoured the net for a way to do SMB over SSH with Windows,
>> I've tried everything I have found and I still can't get it to work.
>>
>> I'm using Windows Vista as the client and FC6 with Samba 3.0.24-1 as the
>> server. I have set up a share and can successfully connect to that share
>> with no ssh tunnel.
>>
>> I would like to tunnel SMB over SSH, so here is what I have tried:
>>
>> 1. Disabling Windows File Sharing with "net stop server". Then, using
>> puTTY, I connect with my ports forwarded. I forward 80 and 139.
>> "http://127.0.0.1" yields my web server's start page, so I know
>> forwarding is working. When I "telnet 127.0.0.1 139" it connects to the
>> SMB server successfully. "netstat -ano" reveals that 127.0.0.1:80 and
>> 127.0.0.1:139 are listening with puTTY.
>>
>> However, trying to map a network drive fails. \\127.0.0.1\share yields
>> the error "The specified network name is no longer available." or 
>> "Network path not found." I know the share is working because I can 
>> access it without SSH at the same time.
>>
>> Here are two lines from netstat when I have the telnet session open:
>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45535             127.0.0.1:139     
>> ESTABLISHED
>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:139               127.0.0.1:45535     
>> ESTABLISHED
>>
>>
>> 2. I have tried adding the loopback device as detailed all over the web
>> (ie http://www.blisstonia.com/eolson/notes/smboverssh.php ,
>> http://www.cheswick.com/ches/cheap/tunnelprob.html)
>> When I do this, I can access the webserver via the loopback device but
>> "telnet 10.0.0.1 139" times out. However, puTTY appears to be listening
>> on 10.0.0.1:80 and 10.0.0.1:139. I cannot add the share either. I have 
>> done everything I can think of to get this to work.
>>
>> In addition, I have disabled Windows listening on port 445 (as 
>> suggested in one of the guides) I have tried giving puTTY the actually 
>> IP of the samba server as the destination, I have ensured that 127. is 
>> allowed by the smb.conf...
>>
>> What could be going wrong here? Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>>
>> --Richard D. Morey, M.A.
>> Research Assistant, Perception and Cognition Lab
>> University of Missouri-Columbia
>>
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> --Charles Bueche <charles at bueche.ch>
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> 

-- 
Richard D. Morey, M.A.
Research Assistant, Perception and Cognition Lab
University of Missouri-Columbia