Re: [SLUG] Netbios shares from outside a firewall

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Ross Mitchell was once rumoured to have said:
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> So I tried it the 'proper' way and used ipnat and rdr to pass
> 137/138/139 tcp/udp on to the box from the 10's to the 169's. That
> works (checked via nmap for tcp and udp) but trying a 'net view'
> from the 10.x fails to find the box. I next tried allowing
> broadcasts to redirect but still no go.

You'll need to use either a lmhosts file on the clients trying to
connect, or deploy a WINS server.  Broadcast host discovery doesn't
function over subnet boundaries.

C.
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