Accessing firewalled samba server

[gmoreno]

Hi guys and gals,

What's the best way to access my firewalled samba server. I've tried using a ssh tunnel but that hasnt worked it fails everytime I try to connect to it.

What I did is I ssh into the samba server and then ran

ssh -L8080:localhost:139 gmoreno@home.esclavosoy.com

then tried to mount from my computer

mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx,password=xxx  ///69.225.5.194:8080 shares/

but its failed.

Thanks

[chessforce]

If you are using `iptables`, you can open the ports that Samba uses and restrict access to them using conditions such as network address/mask, MAC address, and etc.