Samba mount via SSH problem

ifrflyr · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 44

Hi, everyone,

I'm trying to mount a samba share via an ssh connection. First I made the ssh connection, which worked.

Voltago · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject:

Hi! According to this thread you need the ports 137,138 and 139 for samba. Perhaps it'd be easier if you used sftp for secure file interchange. There are nice kio_slave/gnome-vfs plugins for it, and with fuse + sshfs-fuse, you can even mount remote locations via ssh.

ifrflyr · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 44

Thanks for that information. I got this going with ssh and smbfs actually, using some help from a Samba IRC. The problem, as you pointed out, was that the samba server on the remote host was already using 139. I did 139:localhost:445 to forward the port on the remote server to 445 instead of 139, and it mounted right away using:

sudo mount -t smbfs //localhost/public /home/user/samba -o username=user,password=password,uid=user,gid=users,port=139

I will definitely check out your suggestions though, as it seems a very cool way to do it.

Thanks again for the reply!