SMB Ports?

[Allen, Michael B (RSCH)]

Unfortunately this is non-trivial Thorsten. I know people do it but I think setting
up VPN like with ipsec, freeswan, whatever would be more fruitfull. Also non-
trival.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Thorsten Brabetz [SMTP:T.Brabetz at ee.qub.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:45 AM
> To:	Allen, Michael B (RSCH); 'Richard Fox'; smb clients
> Subject:	Re: SMB Ports?
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> Hi Allen, 
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>    Well, I have to say that I felt a bit uneasy about opening up port 139 
> myself. I will check whether I can find out how to activate ssl support, or 
> whether it is indeed already activated (having not much of an idea about 
> Samba yet, I pretty much used the default values when installing it...). The 
> thing is, even when I activate ssl, will my Samba connection not still be 
> intercepted by the firewall, and how do I stop that? 
> 
> Thank you for your thoughts and help!
> 
> Best regards
>  
>  
> Thorsten
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> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 22:46, Allen, Michael B (RSCH) wrote:
> > Actually you probably do not want to be doing name service stuff if you're
> > going through a firewall so 139 should do it. But then again, I wouldn't
> > expose any smb port to hostle networks. You really need ssl.
> >
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