[Gllug] samba newbie

[James Goldwater]

Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:13 , Minty <mintywalker at gmail.com> sent:
> 
> 
>>On 10/11/05, Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
>>
>>>Minty wrote:
>>>
>>>>I can ping the server from the client on ports 137 and 139.
>>>
>>>I doubt it, unless you're using tcping.  You don't "ping" a port.
>>
>>Bah.  Don't know what I was thinking, but the wireless router blocks
>>ports 137/139.  Hence I cannot telnet/connect to the server on those
>>ports.  Bother.
>>
>>Thanks for the help.  Off I go to see if I can justify opening those
>>ports (although I suspect probably not)...
> 
> 
> If you cannot get the ports open, you could tunnel your connection over SSH.  Not a perfect solution as you have to SSH into the box to have access to it, but it would get you in.
> 
>

Will this work?  AFAIK, you can't tunnel UDP over SSH and SMB needs this 
  IIRC?  Anyway, another way is to use OpenVPN if you have admin access 
to your client.
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