I guess the problem I am having is with PuTTY, I am forcing ssh 2 and putting in the ports and addresses for the client and server as best I can, I have been able to get VPN to work over pptp, which is cool but I would prefer using ssh.
If you have a copy of putty laying around would you mind trying it? Or even teraterm-ssh, I am reluctant to use cygwin and such because of the user interface. Thanks again. Richard Puga [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS Have you gotten this to work with cygwin or somthing before? > > I am using FreeBSD 4.8 and Samba 2.2.8 as the server, I would like to use any > > windows operating system for the client side, but probably XP. > > (I want to map the samba share to the windows box) > > > > so one idea could be to start three ssh tunnels from client side. which > command line u may wonna do something like this: > > $ ssh -L 137:localhost:137 -N -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $ ssh -L 138:localhost:138 -N -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $ ssh -L 139:localhost:139 -N -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (putty should be able to do something similar. but i guess u will need > some scripting so that these ssh commands will be executed on startup of > the client systems or at least before the shares will be mounted of > course.) > > now u should be able to connect ur clients to any share on server side > with "\\localhost\share-name" > > i am not familiar with VPN. possibly its a better solution (?) > > seb > > > Thanks for your Help > > > > Richard Puga > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:25, FreeBSD MAIL wrote: > > > > I want to use PuTTY and ssh to port forward and map a samba share across the > > > > internet. From what I have read on the net it almost seems possable. > > > > > > i guess u have to set up ssh port forwarding for the ports 137,138 and > > > 139. > > > > > > which box shall provide the share (windows, fbsd, linux...) ? what kind > > > of OS is used on the client boxes ? > > > > > > seb > > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know how this can be done? If it cant I guess I will have to use > > > > some VPN thing.. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > > > Richard Puga > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"