Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>>
>>> You might try tunneling the traffic and compressing it but I doubt that
>>> would give you the kind of improvement you are looking for.
>
> I'm not sure how that can be done.
> Currently I'm mounting the share from the samba box to my laptop.(mount
> -t smbfs ) and saving files to it frequently have app hangs. (even
> browsing folders)
>
> How can I do the tunneling? Any suggestions? IPSEC? SSH? etc? I'm new in
> this.

ssh. (via port forwarding) I've done this a few times (not across large
distances as you plan to)

1. setup the ssh tunnel - with compression
ssh -C -N remote-ssh-box   -L10139:remote-samba-box:139

2. Now mount the filesystem (using the locally forwarded port)
smbmount //localhost/share-path /local-mount-point  -o port=10139',other-options

Satish