Chris Roubekas wrote:
Dear all,
Firstly thanks to all of those who responded. Had a lot of reading to do after receiving all of your e-mails. Many many thanks for your help.
I'm not sure if this will work for you ... but here goes anyway ;-) For Linux clients, I use the following: ssh -C -c blowfish -L 2000:localhost:139 *remotehost* mount -t smbfs -o username=*remoteuser*,password=*remotepass*,uid=*localuser*,port=2000,ip=localhost //*remotename*/*share* /mnt/*wherever* (the above command is one line) For Windows clients I do basically the same thing. I use Putty as the ssh client. Unfortunately, on Windows you have to use 139:localhost:139 for the forwarding. This will only work if file/print sharing is *removed* from the client. Just disabling it won't work. This has no effect on the Windows client as far as browsing and connecting to other shares. They just cant share themselves. Putty stores its setting in the registry. I export that section. Installation consists of copying the Putty exe and double clicking the reg file. Users start Putty and can then connect to the share that appears to be on their local PC. The only port required on the firewall is for ssh. HTH Louis