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Ports for NAT'ed Windows share

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Mar 15, 202637223 views
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Simple question: I have a NATed Linux at home that hosts a couple of samba shares. What Ports should I forward from the router to the Linux box so as to be able to access those shares from the internet with windows explorer (a la "\my.dyndns.org\shares\xxx" style)? I want the minimum number of port…

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Fix for: Ports for NAT'ed Windows share

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TCP 139, "NetBIOS Session" – SMB wrapped in NetBIOS for compatibility TCP 445, SMB – the preferred method, SMB directly over TCP ICMP Echo (Ping) – used by Windows to check whether the machine is up. "NetBIOS Name Service" is TCP/UDP 137, and "NetBI…

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