Sorry...I deleted the thread about SOCKS before I realized
I knew the solution...
I checked up on how SMB connections work on an NT workstation
running the Hummingbird SOCKS proxy. It looks like "net use..."
and its GUI variant don't use the WINSOCK/WINSOCK 2 interface to
make netbios-session (139/tcp) connections. The machine attempted
to make a direct connection to the remote host.
So what to do? Set up an SSH daemon on a machine inside the network
that needs the SOCKS proxy for it to be reached. Get an ssh client that
can tunnel TCP via the ssh connection. Set up a tunnel for
localhost:139 to <samba machine>:139 with the client. Make the
ssh connection. After that, you can do a "net view \\127.0.0.1"
when the ssh connection is up, and see your shares on <samba
machine>.
I'm using Van Dyke's SecureCRT on the client end
(http://www.vandyke.com/),
and sshd 1.2.26 from ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/
on the server end. Since SecureCRT _does_ support SOCKS, this works.
Jim
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