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Authored by: eaganj on Sep 09, '02 02:32:30PM

A few warnings are in order for the SMB tunnel listed above:

First of all, there are reasons that the system requires you to use the superuser account to set up a tunnel (or do anything) with port numbers < 1024. For one, in you're already running an SMB server (e.g. if you offer SMB services to windows users), port 139 will already be in use, so you won't be able to start up the tunnel!

What's most scary about that method, though, is that you have to start up the tunnel using sudo, causing ssh to run as the superuser. At minimum a warning about the dangers of running programs as root is necessary.

Now if only we could get the cmd-K dialog to let us override the Samba port to a non-privileged port....



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Authored by: johnpg on Sep 09, '02 04:56:29PM

This guy is 100% right about this. What we're telling people to do is basically bypass your companies firewall security. It's dangerous on many levels, so it should be done only by folks who know what they're doing and/or are willing to take responsibility for their actions.



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Authored by: tunesmith on Jan 26, '04 05:58:51PM

Is this really not possible in Panther? Why the heck not? There's got to be a way... anyone know?



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Authored by: robophilosopher on Jan 26, '04 06:09:51PM

This is possible in Panther, as it is in any UNIX-based system.



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