On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:00AM -0000, Matthias wrote:
> I got CIFS to work (where is the difference to SMBFS anyway, isn't that
> just another name for it?), 

No. cifs and smbfs are different kernel modules. smbfs is no longer
maintained and should be replaced by cifs.


> However, what still doesn't work at all is mounting the CIFS share
> directly without going through an SSH tunnel. The client just never gets
> a response back from the server. As I said, ports 445 and 139 are
> correctly forwarded and it works in the local network. It might be a
> server issue, but I doubt it.

It may also be your ISP that blocks port 445 and 139, as a lot of
viruses use it to scan for windows computers.

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 smbfs: mounting remote samba-filesystem leads to errors in /var/log/syslog
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