How to access SMB share from windows over the internet with specific port number

Hamza Hassan 1 Reputation point
2020-12-21T10:38:44.573+00:00

Hi,

I have a SMB server running on windows port 445. When I want to connect to this server on the local network, everything works fine. I'm getting into trouble when I want to connect to my SMB server over the internet specially through windows. In router I forwarded a port 4455 to my SMB server ip with internal port 445.

I have managed to access that SMB server through Android with port 4455 over the internet. How to do the same thing through windows with port 4455.

I try to connect:

  1. go to My computer
  2. Click add network location
  3. Enter x.x.x.x as ip (ofcourse I enter a real public IP)
  4. Then try to connect

What I want:

I want to connect as described above, but I want to specify a port number (4455) so I can connect to a different port rather than 445.

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  1. Candy Luo 12,661 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-12-22T02:44:47.687+00:00

    Hi ,

    If you want to share file over the internet using an internet URL like FTP://69.252.XX.X:21/ in your browser. You can have port forwarding on your router point to the internal server that is running FTP an apply proper file protection on the directory being serviced by the FTP server.

    You can also consider using a VPN connection. Set up a VPN between your client and SMB server and tunnel SMB through the VPN.

    Best Regards,

    Candy

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  2. MotoX80 32,076 Reputation points
    2020-12-21T15:33:44.437+00:00

    I would suggest that you install the OpenSSH feature on Windows and then configure your router to forward port 22. On the client, use WinSCP or Filezilla to connect via SFTP/SSH. That insures that all network traffic between the 2 systems over the internet is encrypted.

    I have not tired this but it might work for you. https://www.nsoftware.com/sftp/drive/

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