Thanks Gustin. I was thinking about doing something similar - mounting the windows share on the Linux box, then using ssh to there. I was just wondering if there was a way to bypass this intermediate step....
BTW, this would be a Linux (workstation) to Linux to Windows type of setup... Shawn On Thursday 14 July 2005 13:46, Gustin Johnson wrote: > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 139:sambahost:139 > > For windows simply go to \\localhost > > For linux mount -t smbfs //localhost/share /mnt/point -o username=myuser > > In both cases either samba or windows file sharing must be disabled on the > workstation you are ssh-ing from. > > I have not had to do this in a while. I actually cheat a little now. I > use shfs to mount the ssh server to a path on my workstation, then use > samba or NFS mounts in subdirectories from there (on the remote ssh > machine). > > Cheers > > On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:12, Shawn wrote: > > I have a situtation where I need to manage a windows server remotely, > > through an SSH connection to a Linux server on the network. So the > > connection looks something like this: > > > > local workstation ---- | ---- ssh server ----- windows server > > > > Specifically, I need to be able to access files on the windows server. > > > > My initial research indicates a command something like this would do the > > trick: > > > > ssh -R 139:localhost:139 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > But I don't think I understand the command properly, or I'm missing > > something. The command doesn't seem to be working for me. When I try it, > > I connect to the host fine, but then I'm in a shell on the ssh server. > > Opening another local console and trying to access the windows server > > fails - by name or IP address. > > > > Can this be done through SSH? Any tips are appreciated. > > > > Shawn > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

