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...ives on the remote machine, e.g. using: net use h: \\127.0.0.1\username /user:username /persistent:no Is there a way to keep the local NetBIOS services running, and still be able to map drives on the remote machine? Yes. Install a Microsoft Loopback Adapter (http://research.lumeta.com/ches/cheap/tunnelsolution.html ; http://lists.isb.sdnpk.org/pipermail/comp-list/2003-February/001853.html). You can install as many of these adapters as you like (e.g. for multiple Samba connections to different machines). You can rename the network connection on this adapter from "Local Area Connection n" to some...

I have a samba file share configured on RH7.3. smb.conf is below. I have a stunnel running with: stunnel -d 2222 -r localhost:139 I'm connecting to this from Windows using instructions as per here: http://www.cheswick.com/ches/cheap/tunnelsolution.html , which is basically stunnel running in Windows stunnelling port 139 on a local IP to 2222 on my remote server, so that I can access the share via (in windows speak) \\localIP\test It all works fine, but it takes a loooong time to make connections. Once a connection is established, the spee...