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Hello, How secure is SMB3 over Internet? I see that Microsoft Azure is doing SMB3 shares over internet so they seem to think it's secure. Does the SAMBA team recommend this type of scenario OR do they recommend instead running it over a SSH tunnel/VPN?

...I see that Microsoft Azure is doing SMB3 shares over internet so they seem to think it's secure. > > Does the SAMBA team recommend this type of scenario OR do they recommend instead running it over a SSH tunnel/VPN? > > i won't even consider it > > ports 137,138,139,445 ar eblocked outgoing here and any inbound > connection on that ports will reject your source-ip for some seconds on > any prot over the whole network > > it's in general not wise to expose uncommon public services (common = > http, ssh, ftp, email) to the web without a ssh-tunnel and if it...