[ale] SMB options

[David Hamm]

Are you saying you can mount shares or access directories and files via HTTP 
in the same manner as SMB?  The SMB users need the full functionality of an 
SMB share.

On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:14 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Try a login authenticated web access.
>
> 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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