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Port Mapping for Win98 File Sharing in Airport ?
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I want to be able to access my Win 98 shared files from outside (i.e. Internet).
The Win 98 computer is connected to my Airport Basestation via WLAN. I manually assigned an IP address.
Accessing the files from INSIDE the network with an iBook is no problem, I used "Connect to Server" with "SMB://x.x.x.x" (IP address).
But from outside, I can't do that directly. I figured that I need to do Port Mapping, I don't know how to set up Port Mapping in the Airport Basestation so I can access the Win Share from outside.
Specifically: What port does Win 98 file sharing listen to ?
Thx for help !
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Might be TCP ports 137 - 139. You could give that try. Alternatively if you have a LinkSys router, turn on the logging feature for inbound traffic and try to connect to your computer from outside and see what ports are accessed.
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Originally posted by John Strung:
Might be TCP ports 137 - 139. You could give that try. Alternatively if you have a LinkSys router, turn on the logging feature for inbound traffic and try to connect to your computer from outside and see what ports are accessed.
These are the NetBIOS ports. Already tried all of them. No luck.
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Hi Turtle, I am trying to share a folder on my XP machine. I used your SMB command from my power book, but get an error = -36 any ideas what this could mean?
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Originally posted by cube4all:
Hi Turtle, I am trying to share a folder on my XP machine. I used your SMB command from my power book, but get an error = -36 any ideas what this could mean?
I've had this error before, but I'm not sure, what exactly it means. There can be a lot of things wrong... (typical for Windows error messages...)
Did you turn on File Sharing on the XP machine ?
Can you ping the IP address that your XP machine has ?
I prefer to manually assign IP addresses, then I know exactly what's going on.
I would suggest that you search the terms "networking XP" in these forums or at macosxhints.com
-t
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in my experience, windows file sharing doesn't work through NAT (what a router does). that's because samba (SMB) is designed only to work on machines within the same subnet - basically, it's for LAN sharing, not WAN sharing. i think that this is the problem, not the ports.
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Originally posted by superlarry:
in my experience, windows file sharing doesn't work through NAT (what a router does). that's because samba (SMB) is designed only to work on machines within the same subnet - basically, it's for LAN sharing, not WAN sharing. i think that this is the problem, not the ports.
Hm, if that's true, than I guess I have to take a total different approach.
Anyone with good ideas ?
Would be VPN a solution ?
Are there free / shareware VPN server applications for Windows 98 ? Afaik it requires quite some computing power...
Well, any comments are appreciated...
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