samba - Feb 2004 - Virtual network using ssh tunneling on Windows 2K/XP. Please help.

Hi,
I'm trying to connect to a samba server via an ssh tunnel.  I'm running
ssh on my W2K machine.  If I try to connect from another machine that
is running an OS called RiscOS and a NetBIOS client called LanMan98
then it works perfectly, but if I try to connect from the another Windows
machine running XP, or from the W2k machine (uisng loopback), I get

"Windows cannot find \\127.0.0.1\sharename.  Check the spelling and try
again,
or try searching for the item by clicking the Start button and then clicking
Search."

I've found claims on the net of this working.  So what am I doing wrong
(other than using Windows in the first place :-) )?

Cheers,
    Paul.

Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to connect to a samba server via an ssh tunnel.  I'm
running
> ssh on my W2K machine.  If I try to connect from another machine that
> is running an OS called RiscOS and a NetBIOS client called LanMan98
> then it works perfectly, but if I try to connect from the another Windows
> machine running XP, or from the W2k machine (uisng loopback), I get
> 
> "Windows cannot find \\127.0.0.1\sharename.  Check the spelling and
try again,
> or try searching for the item by clicking the Start button and then
clicking
> Search."
> 
> I've found claims on the net of this working.  So what am I doing wrong
> (other than using Windows in the first place :-) )?
What are ports that you tunnel with SSH ?
Did you forget to tunnel 445 ?

Regards,

J?r?me

From: "J?r?me Fenal"
<jerome.fenal@logicacmg.com>
> Paul Gardiner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to connect to a samba server via an ssh tunnel. 
I'm running
> > ssh on my W2K machine.  If I try to connect from another machine that
> > is running an OS called RiscOS and a NetBIOS client called LanMan98
> > then it works perfectly, but if I try to connect from the another
Windows
> > machine running XP, or from the W2k machine (uisng loopback), I get
> >
> > "Windows cannot find \\127.0.0.1\sharename.  Check the spelling
and try again,
> > or try searching for the item by clicking the Start button and then
clicking
> > Search."
> >
> > I've found claims on the net of this working.  So what am I doing
wrong
> > (other than using Windows in the first place :-) )?
>
> What are ports that you tunnel with SSH ?
> Did you forget to tunnel 445 ?
I did, but I've added it now, and I'm still getting the same error
message.  I
also tried forwarding 138 and 137, with no effect.

Any other ideas?


BTW, to forward 445, I had to stop W2K binding it, but I found info on
a registry change that did the job.

Cheers,
    Paul.