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So I'm continuing to attempt to set up a Network Drive that will write to a Linux box in the sky.

I made the NTLM change suggested by this question, but I still can't understand a few things to do with the original question.

1) The first is, __what does using \\127.0.0.1\ as the network folder mean? If I set up the port 139 forward to tunnel to port 22 on an SSH connection, that means the network drive should "point to the SSH connection", is that right?

2) So assuming that PuTTY maintains the SSH connection, and the Windows Network Drive is mapped to that SSH connection, what can the network drive do with that connection? Are file reads and writes going to be automatically converted to wget or something?

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  1. The location \\127.0.0.1\ means open the SMB root folder on the local computer. SMB communicates over port 139; Putty is listening on Port 139 on the local computer, it takes that traffic and sends it over it's SSH Tunnel (running on Port 22 by default) to the remote destination of the Tunnel. The remote destination is a Linux server running Samba which communicates via SMB.

  2. The Tunnel doesn't translate anything at all, it's just shipping the data to the remote end. The server at the remote end speaks the same protocol. The Tunnel is just allowing you to connect to a remote network, very similar to a VPN.

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