How do I mount a SMB volume from a machine behind a Proxy?
smbmount //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/share /mnt/xxx -o username=xx it's ok and works, but how do I do this if the target share is located on a Windows XP machine whitout a real IP adress, behind a proxy that is using Red Hat 8.0 ? I know the real IP adress of the proxy, the local IP adress of the machine and I also know a username/password.
This is the first time I'm asking something, so i don't know if this is basic Linux or it's a hard question.
you need port-forwarding on the firewall,
i dont think just port forwarding will work. i guess the proxy should do NAT for u in addition.
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The machine isn't using DHCP and the server isn't even config'd as a DHCP server, but there is another problem, probably bigger, that the sysadmin is no longer with us, but as long as the server is up&running nobody is allowed to touch it, so I can't make any changes, and even if we would be allowed, we don't have the root password.
What we want to do looks like a hack. I don't know if the proxy will allow us to transmit SMB packets.
Other ideeas?
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All the changes we can do is on the machines that we would like to connect, not on the server.
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I've heared about "inverse masquerading".
Anybody can explain?
thnx
Kronos
Anybody can explain?
thnx
Kronos
if the admin atthe firewall is not willing to help you, you have little chance to do what you want.
Even "inverse masquerading" won't help 'cause the packets are lost at leastat the firewall.
You can try to tunnel port 137 and 139 for example over ssh.
Even "inverse masquerading" won't help 'cause the packets are lost at leastat the firewall.
You can try to tunnel port 137 and 139 for example over ssh.
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but how can I ssh to that machine?
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but how can I ssh to that machine?
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Thank you all, I didn't try yet, so I can't tell you if it's working, but because we discussed this matter enough I think ahoffman did the best so he's gonna take the reward.
THNX ahoffman & ianmate & kiranghag
Kronos
This seems more of a firewall/proxy question than anything else.
This is more of a proxy/firewall question...
When you say the target share doesn't have a "real address" I presume you mean it's on a "private" network behind the proxy (which is acting as a firewall) e.g. in the 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x etc. range.
If so then it's just a case of getting the proxy to pass the SMB traffic between the target machine and the machine you're doing the smbmount on. The proxy administrator should be able to do that for you. Then the ipaddress you'll use in the smbmount will be the address of your side of the proxy.
If the target machine is also in a DHCP system, i.e. its IP address might change if it's rebooted then you have lots of problems. Basically it will be *really* hard to configure the proxy to know where to send the SMB traffic on the target side if the target's IP address keeps changing! The solution there will be to ask the DHCP administrator to reserve a static IP address for the target as it's being used as a server.