Samba over SSH -- Opening Windows to UNIX safely and reliably

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Samba is a suite of programs that enables interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows clients. See What Is Samba? for more. [[1]]. I use it to map some UNIX directories in a server at my workplace to several of my Windows desktops. Recently I had to put my server behind a firewall and close all the ports of communication except SSH (22). Now, Samba or any other windows NetBIOS communication (in plain language things like 'sharing' files and folders between windows computers.) needs port 139 to be open. My solution was to tunnel

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