samba shares and airports and wan access

[gardnerj]

I have a sun server sharing a file system via samba.

I can connect to this share using my pb and airport over my lan.

However when i try to connect to the (isp supplied) external airport ip address and port map (ports 137-139 inclusive) the samba connection through i get connection errors (-36).

I have sneaky supsicion that samba is netbios based which would mean it is not routeable by the airport. Anybody tried something similar.

[gardnerj]

thinking about it this might be better off in genius bar. if one of the mods could oblige.

[bunge]

I've recently looked at the smb.conf file and if I remember correctly it does have netbios info and no port info. That's on OS X Server though, so Sun's implementation could be different (although I doubt it.)