Monday, September 12, 2011

Samba sharing across LANs using an SSH Tunnel

I've tried this on a Home-Edition WinXP computer tunnelling to an Ubuntu machine with a Samba share. It works pretty well using a Microsoft Loopback Adapter and PuTTY.  Instructions given here are very easy to follow:

http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/238/ssh-reverse-tunneling/