Joe Granto wrote:
> I realized I neglected one huge point in my SMB over SSH woes. I have
> successfully tunnelled NetBT over SSH. It is SMB that does not seem to
> work. My exploits are documented here:
>
> http://jgranto.dyndns.org/joe/SSH/index.htm
To start off with a good old-fashioned bit of nitpicking:
SMB is not "also known as samba in the UNIX world". Samba is an
implementation of the SMB protocol suite.
> So, if anyone can tell me how to tunnell SMB on port 445 over SSH on
> Windows XP, I would really appreciate it. My goal is not to enable
> NetBT, and keep the system pure SMB. Thanks!
Personally, I'd just use OpenVPN instead of trying to amputate my arm
with a basketball. SMB uses UDP in many places (examples include host
discovery and name services), but ssh can't forward those. You might be
able to get this working with a croft that would make Albert Einstein's
lecture notes look tidy, but please don't if there's no reason why
openvpn won't work here.