jodonato@comcast.net (Joseph Donato) wrote in message news:
> so on. I need to find a way to specify that it connects to port 445
> in the finder. Does anyone know how to do this?

I have also been attempting this without any luck. Supposedly
you just specify smb://user@hostort/service but it always
gives me this error when trying to connect to the non-standard
port:

| The finder cannot complete the operation because some data
| in smb://... could not be read or written. (Error code -36)."

I have no problems connecting using the command line
smbclient, and I have no problems using Finder to access a
samba share which listens through the standard port.

I would chalk this up as an OS X finder bug.