ive been fighting with this for 3 days… does SMB NOT work over the intenet?
I have a 2.9.3 mt firewall
SMB does not work unless i route it over a VPN tunnle and thus use a 192.168.4.x (on the server side) to connect to.
HERE IS THE ISSUE: on either a PC or a xbox, if the smb share i’m poiniting to is 64.69.4x.x and i have a rule on my firewall to log that packet, IT NEVER COMES. now if i simply change the smb share to 192.168.4.200 and log that packet on the firewall it does come, and it does work.
does smb or netbios work over the intenet??? i know everyone blocks the ports but why is a request ONLY being sent out if its to a local, private IP why would the client not even be sending the request to my firewall, either XBMediaCenter or A WIndows XP PC?
Apparently, there are a few viruses/worms that use the same port range as SMB.
Unless those ports are blocked somewhere between the two computers, it should work. However, if you have the Windows firewall enabled, you can set an IP range that’s allowed for File and Printer Sharing, under Exceptions. This defaults to the IP/subnet that’s assigned to your NIC, as far as I know. Double check this and try it again.
Really though, for something like SMB, I’d recommend using a VPN or some other kind of encryption..
i agree, and use vpns for file sharing…but the preformance is so slow on even very fast lines..this is not the vpn or MTs fault. from what i understand the tcp winodow in SMB is very small since its made for low latency netowks.
i have a mt to mt VPN on which i can, from a ftp server and ftp client on either sides, pull constant 8-11mbit/sec…i will only get 1-1.5mbit MAX on smb or windows sharing…~60-70ms latency on this line aswell.
does anyone know some kind of soultion here, i know businesses dont put up with slow windows file sharing and browsing for the SO many remote VPN clients there are out there, and those users are one much slower, hight ping lines…?
If you want to roll with the Secure FTP idea, I think the FileZilla project has an SFTP server for Windows, and then you can use the FileZilla (S)FTP client to connect to it.
