Internet via SSH and Samba Remote Mounting Problem

First for my SSH problem. I have set up SSH on my Red HAt 9 machine and have installed F Secure SSH Client on my XP machine. I enter my IP, user id, pass and port and I am able to connect to the SSH server. I have setup a tunnel with the listen port as 10000, the Dest Host as localhost, the Dest Port as port 80 and the type as TCP. Then in my explorer settings I have selected use Prozy Server for LAN under the Internet Properties. The adress I used was localhost and th eport was 10000. After the SSH is connected I try to connect to the internet but I am unable to do so. I have tryed this exact configuration in trying to connect to my uncles SSH server and I am able to get in and surf the net fine. I have no idea what the answer to this is.
BTW I am on my local network if this were to make a difference.

My problem relating to Samba is that I am unable to MAp a Network Drive. I put in an unused letter and put the path as 192.168.1.4 which is my Linux Machine. I get the error The Computer or Sharename could not be found. Make sure you typed it in correctly and try again.
BTW my Linux machine is conncected to the internet wirelessly through my router.

Thanks for the help.

Alim

What does your server have running on port 80? Does it have a webserver or a proxy? I really can't see what you are trying to acheive, maybe you could elaborate.

You will most likely need backslashes and the share name "\\192.168.1.4\myshare"

What I am trying to do is have a secure line in which whatever sites are accesed on the internet are encrypted. I am going to be using this at work because our network admins monitor sites that are accessed and if they are not buisness related they have to take action.

How can I check what is running on port 80?

Also I tried //192.168.1.4/var/www but it gives the same error and I have added this folder to what is being shared on Samba.

i checked under apache configuration and under available adresses it says all available adresses on Port 80 but when I check the systme status through webmin it says that the apache server is not running. DOnt know if that will help but I thought I would tell you

Since you say this tunnel process works on your Uncle's PC then you need to find out what is different between the two configurations.

You also say your using port 10000 for the tunnel but isn't that the same port that webmin runs on? And your other post indicates your using webmin. You might want to try changing your tunnel port.

interesting you say that but my uncle also uses webmin and he toldme I should set my tunnel port to 10000 and his tunnel port is also 10000.

The port that the tunnel is leading to is port 80 and I am running apache on this port. Do I need to be running something else for ti to be able to connect to the net.

This was just a guess. I wouldn't think it would work if the port was in use by another service.

i have figured out what the problem is. It is that port 80 is in use by apache so it cannot be used as a proxy. I need to know how to open a new port that I can use for connecting to the net. If anyone knows how to do this the help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

You will need to use a proxy like squid:
http://www.squid-cache.org

About your samba problem - you did not use the format I showed. The \'s were inverted and you used a file system path and not a share name as defined in smb.conf

i tried squid and i tryed many diffferent versiosn but every time i try to install it gives the error

configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

do u know any other similar proxys or how i can resolve the problem

thanks

i figured it out and got it working. thanks for the tip.

i still cant get the samba server mounted.

i tried \\192.168.1.4\var\www and it didnt work

is there anything i can modify in the smb.conf file to allow me to mount this drive

Originally posted by alimharji i tried \\192.168.1.4\var\www and it didnt work

You still haven't read my previous posts

i tried "\\192.168.1.4\alim"
"\\192.168.1.4\var\www"
"\\192.168.1.4\root" and none of it worked

Can you post your smb.conf file.

the link is as follows because I couldnt copy the text:
http://alim.gotdns.com/smb.conf