Re: how to map drive via ssh?

From: Alan Hadsell (ahadsell@MtDiablo.com)
Date: 12/10/02 

From: Alan Hadsell <ahadsell@MtDiablo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:50:32 GMT

Sergei Gnezdov <sergei-gnezdov-pub@pobox.com> writes:

> I'd like to map a drive on Windows machine and tunnel the connection
> over ssh.

I'm assuming that both machines (client and server) are running
Windows. If not, then parts of this message won't make sense.

The SMB protocol used for drive mapping uses UDP packets, which can't
be tunnelled over an SSH connection, so that won't work.

> I could try SAMBA or ftp over ssh, but that sounds too complex to me.

SAMBA doesn't do what you want. It's a server program that runs on
Unix systems and uses the SMB protocol to provide file sharing. So
even if you could run SAMBA on your Windows server, you'd hit the same
problem as above: it won't work over an SSH connection.

FTP over SSH hits a different problem. Because the FTP protocol uses
a "random" port for the data connection, you can't tunnel it (at least
not easily).

I think Nico's right. Use a VPN.

One alternative would be to use the Cygwin/OpenSSH server on your
"server" system, and PuTTY with Secure iXplorer Pro on your "client"
system to access it. Secure iXplorer Pro is a shareware graphical
"explorer-type" client that uses PuTTY to provide a secure connection.

Installing and configuring all this software is likely to be
burdensome. I repeat: Use a VPN. 

-- 
Alan Hadsell
If something's already broken, does it really matter how many pieces it's in?
--James Bottomley on lkml

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