fc3 connect to Windowz behide router via smb

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Sat Feb 26 06:58:22 UTC 2005


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, James McKenzie wrote:
> Satish Balay wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Barry Yu wrote:
> > 
> > > How can I access Windowz machine share behide a router when I want to use
> > > 'smb
> > > ://' in url input box of  Konquoror? If to use port forwarding what is the
> > > port number to be used? Tks for any advice.
> > 
> > The port number for smb is tcp:139.
> > 
> If you are trying to connect via Netbui, it is not routable.  NETBIOS is.  If
> you can see the other machine, and it has the appropriate ports open, then you
> should be able to connect to it using Samba.

Hmm.. I don't know what uses what [Konquoror uses netbui?]- but I've
been able to route port 139 via ssh-portforwarding - and use
'smbmount' to connect to mount it.

Satish




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