new network place and TCP port number

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mountaindog

I have a windows 2000 system with a shared folder named share1. This
system is behind a firewall. There are times when I wish to access this
shared folder remotely. Unfortunately my ISP is blocking port 139.
Is is possible to change the port number when the client connects? Like
the way telnet does it

telnet host 8989

When creating the network placed I have tried the follow with no luck:

\\host:8989\share1

This would have been too easy.


If anyone has a suggestion please let me know.

Thanks in advance.
 
Doug,

There is no hacker problem here. I should have mentioned that the Linux
firewall will only forward connections requests from trusted IP source
location. I did not mean to imply that this should ever be done without
VPN or firewall.

Yes, I am using Windows 2000 Pro. I do this all the time with Samba on
Linux and Windows shared files but, only with data which does not need
to be protected. I don't care if this data runs over the network in
clear text. If a hacker wants to wast his/her time looking at my word
docs, more power to them. I often use this as a substitute for ftp.
Believe it or not I have clients who think filezilla is so complex they
will not use it.

This process works all the time. I just does not work in this instance
because the ISP is blocking port 139. Port number reassignment is used
by lots of services. I just want the client to be able to use a
specific port which the firewall will forward to port 139 on the
internal net.

Thanks
 
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