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Sep 2
samba over ssh on mac mac, use-this-cmd
Leopard irritatingly prevents you from creating an ssh tunnel to another computer and then connecting a samba share to your localhost. Get around this by first creating an alias for your localhost interface: 
sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 127.0.0.2 up
Then, forward the ports via ssh, eg with 
sudo ssh -N -L 127.0.0.2:139:localhost:139 -L 127.0.0.2:445:localhost:445 user@server.com
Finally, connect using Finder to smb://127.0.0.2/sharename.