Matt,
Erich Titl wrote:
> Matt
>
> Matt wrote:
>
>>Hi all, I have a strange goal.....
>>
>>the setup: two sites ("a" and "b") both with linux machines running
>>shorewall. a machine at site 'a' needs to connect to services on a
>>machine at site 'b'. both sites have dsl with dynamicaly assigned ip
>>addresses. site 'b's ip can be resolved from siteb.dynamic.dns.com (one
>>of those fancy dynamic-dns sites)
>>
>>the goal: to have a computer at site 'a' connect to a port on the
>>internal nic of the router at site 'a' and have it transparently
>>communicate through this port to a computer at site 'b'. this will be a
>>windows networking/smb connection, so the client machine and the server
>>can't specify a port number. For various reasons we cannot expose the
>>standard smb port at site 'b'.
>>I know i can use DNAT on the router at site 'b' to accept connections on
>>port 12345 and send them to the server port 139.
>>what can i use at site 'a' to accept connections on port 139 on the
>>local interface and forward them to siteb.dynamic.dns.com port 12345?
>>If I specify the fqdn in the shorewall config I see two problems: it
>>either will not work at all, or it'll resolve the address once (when
>>shorewall is started) and never again.
>>
>>I'd like to avoid setting up a vpn as i'm short on time, and I can't
>>install ssh on either machine.
>>
>>ideas? comments? suggestions?
>
>
> This is a typical VPN situation, short of time use OpenVPN to solve this.
>
> my 0.02
>
> Erich
>
Zebedee might be a quick and dirty solution. Secure tunnel. VPN like.
Runs on Windows and Linux. I use it to tunnel VNC. Google it.
Sean
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