Help. I've got an Ubuntu server running fine with Samba. I can connect remotely using an iPhone app using an alternate port number that I've configured to NAT to port 445 through my firewall. But, my ISP has blocked port 445 for security reasons and I have no way of Mapping a drive in a remote Windows machine because port 445 is blocked and there doesn't seem to be any way to edit it or use an alternative port number. I was hoping there's a client software that could resolve this, or some other way of remotely mapping shares to my server. I do not have any local machines inside the server local network, all the users are remote and work from home. Right now we're utilizing a cloud share provider but we want to bring everything in-house but I can't seem to get this to work. L Thanks. Kris
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:22:33AM -0800, Kris Springer wrote:> Help. I've got an Ubuntu server running fine with Samba. I can connect > remotely using an iPhone app using an alternate port number that I've > configured to NAT to port 445 through my firewall. But, my ISP has blocked > port 445 for security reasons and I have no way of Mapping a drive in a > remote Windows machine because port 445 is blocked and there doesn't seem to > be any way to edit it or use an alternative port number. I was hoping > there's a client software that could resolve this, or some other way of > remotely mapping shares to my server. I do not have any local machines > inside the server local network, all the users are remote and work from > home. Right now we're utilizing a cloud share provider but we want to bring > everything in-house but I can't seem to get this to work. LUnfortunately I don't know of any way to make a Windows client use a different port. You might be able to fake it by having a local server that redirects all traffic to/from port 445 to another remote port via netcat, and run the remote server on that port - but that will probably introduce latencty. Jeremy.
Am 06.02.2014 20:22, schrieb Kris Springer:> Help. I've got an Ubuntu server running fine with Samba. I can connect > remotely using an iPhone app using an alternate port number that I've > configured to NAT to port 445 through my firewall. But, my ISP has blocked > port 445 for security reasons and I have no way of Mapping a drive in a > remote Windows machine because port 445 is blocked and there doesn't seem to > be any way to edit it or use an alternative port number. I was hoping > there's a client software that could resolve this, or some other way of > remotely mapping shares to my server. I do not have any local machines > inside the server local network, all the users are remote and work from > home. Right now we're utilizing a cloud share provider but we want to bring > everything in-house but I can't seem to get this to work. L > > > > Thanks. > > Kris >Hi Kris, due to millions of misconfigured windows machines, nearly all ISPs block all ports used by the SMB protocol. So a good way to workaround this is to tunnel all traffic. For example see: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#samba Sure, the client must also support this... Cheers, G?nter --