kind of off topic (remote file access with Windows)

[Jack Jackson]

Sorry if this comes twice: smtp problems this morning.

hi,
I tunnel SMB all the time and it works great; I mount the drive from
across the world!

sudo ssh -L 139:localhost:139 -l username server.name.com -N -f"

will set it up and fork the tunnel into the background once established

sudo mount -t smbfs //localhost/public /home/user/samba_share -o \
user=user,password=password,uid=userid,gid=users,fmask=666


mounts it (if you have the right stuff in fstab)

HTH

Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I know this is kind of off topic but since ubuntu is half of the 
> problem... I mean solution, I thought I would ask.
> 
> I'm trying to access files on an ubuntu system that's "far away" (i.e. 
> path obstructed by two firewalls and the Internet) I really don't want 
> to do the file copy both ways because that's pretty error-prone.  From 
> what I can tell my only solution is webdav but I was hoping for 
> something a little more elegant and easily secured using ssh tunnels. 
> shfs would be great but there's no Windows side filesystem connection. 
> smb and nfs don't tunnel very well as far as I know.
> 
> So any ideas?
> 
> --- eric
> 
>