http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301673
HTH, Tom Thomas W Shinder, M.D. Site: www.isaserver.org Blog: http://blogs.isaserver.org/shinder/ Book: http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7 MVP -- Microsoft Firewalls (ISA) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas RUFF > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Shared drives through a firewall > > > I am trying to persuade a client NOT to map a drive through > two firewalls to > > an untrusted server in a DMZ to run an application. I've > tried Googling > > Netbios and security, but get so many entries as to be useless. > > Other than the latency issues, and my ten cents that it > seems to me to be an > > enormously foolish idea, can you folks offer me any further > ammunition? > > Here is your silver bullet: it won't work :) > > The SMB+NetBIOS+TCP/139 protocol is not NAT aware. > > So unless your client is using public IP addresses internally, it will > just fail. > > Regards, > - Nicolas RUFF > > >
