[brlug-general] Can Samba work via ssh tunnels?

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

At the Samba presentation, I asked if it was possible to use Samba via 
ssh port forwarding and was told that yes, it is possible.

I'm trying to do that right now, but I'm not making much headway.

Has anybody done this before? Do you know of any written docs showing 
how to do this?

What I'm doing right now is:

ssh -L 137:192.168.1.17:137 -L 138:192.168.1.17:138 -L 
139:192.168.1.20:139 -l john my.server.com

but when I try to use Windows Exploder to browse my network, it times 
out after a while and gives me a network access error.

How should I be configuring this? Should I setup a hosts file entry on 
my Windows client box?

Thanks,
John Hebert