Re: Tunneling SMB (139) through SSH
Matthew Kopishke wrote:
I'm not sure if this is exactly a firewall question, but this list
seem like the best place to ask the question.
Here's the problem, our ISP has blocked off port 139 on all the
routers (for security reasons) and refuses to open it back up. We (a
school district) run software for our lunch program, serving line to
be exact. This software has one major flaw (and a bunch of minor ones
too) in that it runs off an access database that the software has to
accessed locally, ie through a windows share. See the problem?
The solution I came up with is to tunnel port 139 via ssh to the
server where the data is stored. It works great using OpenSSH on my
Mac (OS 10.3, kind of ironic really), it seems to work fine on an XP
machine, but it will not work on the Windows 98 machines that I
desperately need to get running. I've uninstalled file and printer
sharing, and I've also tried not logging into the windows network
(just windows login) but when ever I go to access
//127.0.0.1/<sharepoint> I get "The network name cannot be found.".
I guess that editing the c:\windows\lmhosts file would solve your problem.
AFAIK win98 must use lm-names and cannot resolve ip-numbers.
(To be clear: lmhosts: "pooter 127.0.0.1" and use "\\pooter\sharepoint")
I also guess that you already checked that windows is not binding on
port 139 even if you remove the sharing?
Please let me know if it works.
Does anyone see any gotchyas in there? The other thing is I have a
linux firewall in each building, so if some one has a better idea
using them I'm all ears!
Thanks,
Matt
Best regards
Martin
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