Disclaimer
(This page is very much work in progress)
Sometimes you want to access a Windows Share or Samba remotely and
securely.
There are many ways to do that.
One of the ways is to tunnel the SMB traffic (tcp port 445) through ssh.
Setup a ssh server on the remote server side, tweak the remote firewall
to forward tcp port 22 (ssh traffic) into the ssh server.
On the client side, add a "Microsoft Loopback Adapter"
For Vista: see this page.
For XP: see this page.
After you added the Loopback Adapter, assign a private IP address to the Loopback adapter.
Choose a private IP address specified in RFC1918.
On the client side, setup a ssh client such as putty.
In
putty, add a tunnel to tunnel port 445 of the private IP address (of
the Loopback adapter) to the actual IP address of the remote server
that runs Windows Share or Samba.
© 2007-2009 Nicholas
Fong 
Last revised: December 30, 2007