[ale] SMB options

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sat Jan 10 12:20:28 EST 2004


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On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 11:30, David Hamm wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an FTP server sittting on the Internet.  One group of users uploads 
> files via FTP the other group downloads those files via SMB.  Securing SMB 
> communications in most cases is handeled by listing the SMB users's IP 
> address in an IPTables rule with a -j ACCEPT.  But recently I gained an SMB 
> user an ALLTel's network and ALLTel blocks port 135.  The only options I can 
> come up with is eithher FreeSwan or PopTop and from recent experiences I'm 
> not excited about using either.  I wonder if I could run SMB on another port?  
> Under Linux I don't see a problem but the Windows workstations mounting the 
> share can't be modified since they also participate in an SMB based LAN.  Any 
> suggestions are welcomed.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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