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> Why I'd need to us a fucking VPN tunnel just to get SSH to my home computer. My most recent disappointment was trying to mount an Azure SMB 3.0 network drive
by smittywerben 7y ago
> Why I'd need to us a fucking VPN tunnel just to get SSH to my home computer.
My most recent disappointment was trying to mount an Azure SMB 3.0 network drive over port 445. It would function just like a network drive at work or school right? No more poorly made userland daemons i.e. Dropbox. Or any additional software, VPN, proxy, or admin rights for that matter. Just click “add network drive” button in explorer and paste in the URI.
But nope port 445 is blocked by ISPs. So ironically the cheaper storage is only usuable by business internet plans. Which seems sorta atypical.
- stepbeek 7y agoI ran into this with a client recently. Unfortunately, they were already on the business plan. We ended up just hosting an OpenVPN server and having them connect automatically on startup.... This then broke Microsoft Office's ability to verify it still has a paid subscription.
- toast0 7y agoSMB ports being blocked is unfortunate, but it was probably the only reasonable response to all the worms and stuff that were going around on those ports.