Re: Zebedee and Vista: SMB VPN crash tested

Ian Stocks <[email protected]> Sat, 19 May 2007 19:57:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.zebedee.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Magnus Wedberg wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> as I didn't get a response on the last question I bought a laptop 
> with Vista and have managed to get it working. Even if no one is 
> listening :-) I thought I should do a quick report.
>
> Vista works /better/ with Zebedee SMB tunneling than 2000 and XP. The 
> reason is that it doesn't bind port 445 by default to every network 
> adapter (or so it seems); you can thus tunnel 445 only and get fully 
> functional SMB. Yay.
>
> There might be a tutorial coming up on this. I am quite happy, 
> because this means I don't have to research other encrypted tunnels 
> but can happily continue my Zebedee SMB endeavours. :-) 
>   
That's fantastic news, thanks for the update.
 I've only ever used port 139 for SMB shares, so a quick tuturial about 
using port 445 would be good.


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