samba - Oct 2000 - newbie query on smbfs

Hi all,

I am a newbie to samba and smbfs. Excuse me if i don't make sense.

I want to know the feasiblility of the following thing:

Using ssh to setup a secure tunnel and then using smbfs to mount a share through
this tunnel.

Does smbfs using a single connection or does it have a data channel and a
control channel (like ftp).

any info on this will be appreatiated.

Thanks in advance
rahul
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, rahul kalaskar wrote:
> Using ssh to setup a secure tunnel and then using smbfs to mount a
> share through this tunnel.
> 
> Does smbfs using a single connection or does it have a data channel
> and a control channel (like ftp).
It uses a single channel for the connection. The following works for me,
where the remote smb server is samba. The ssh server and the smb server
are not the same.

% ssh -L 139:smb_server:139 ssh_server

% smbclient -L localhost
(gives a list of remote shares)

% mount -t smbfs -o username=x,password=y,workgroup=z //localhost/share /mnt/smb
(the workgroup thing is just because the machines are in different
 workgroups)


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