SMB on port 445 from OSX and OSX server 10.4

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Hello,
We must to connect our Xserve to a smb share on a Windows 2003 server, but the windows2003 server is configured for used the port 445 only, netbios over tcp/ip is disable.
Wenn we try to connect to the share we obtain an error -36. If the windows 2003 server is configured with netbios over tcp/ip (port 139) the connexion is good.

The secrutity crew of the windows 2003 server only will the port 445. How can I configure the smb connexion for used the port 445 and not the 139 &138 &137 ?

Help will be greatly apreciate …

[zero]

As far as I know it isn’t possible for a Mac to make a GUI SMB connection to a Windows server or even another Mac that is only doing SMB on port 445. I’ve reported this as a bug to Apple but they don’t seem to think it’s a bug. Even the command line SMB tools that you might use on any other UNIX to make a mount seem to be crippled by Apple.

But at the command line you can use ‘smbcleint’ to connect to port 445 like an FTP connection but It doesn’t seem to be able to create a mount.

If you have SSH on the Windows server you can tunnel the connection. Rutgers has a nice set of directions.
http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/newdocs/samba/macosx/port_for.php

Haven’t tried installing the SMB from source or binary to see if it fixes anything but it might give you command line access. If you get that you can make a mount point in the file system then use the GUI to access it.

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