Samba4 - One to One NAT

[tms3 at tms3.com]

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> First ... let me clarify that I'm not the brightest bulb and I'm abit 
> concerned posting a question considering the company kept in this 
> group ... but ... I've been beating on this for days without 
> resolution.
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> So I've decided to simply ask a general question that I'm hopeful will 
> have a simple answer rather that be positive or negative.
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> I originally setup a test Samba4 server and after abit of fiddling got 
> a WinXP machine to successfully join ... hooray!
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> Next ... I took that new found knowledge and decided to try and setup 
> a server on Amazon as a micro instance which is another topic that I'm 
> only partially knowledgeable of ...
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> So ... with two strikes against me and following the wiki once again I 
> have everything working and happy from the instance itself.
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> I had to hack around abit to get the zone file to use the public IP 
> which I suppose is one to one NAT'd to the private IP but I got'er 
> done and all the tests in the wiki seem to pass into incident.

This sounds like a very BAD idea.
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> Then I try to join my test XP box ...
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> It can see the server and asks for credentials to join but gives me an 
> error:
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> "The network path was not found."
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> Now after all that rambling ... should it even be possible to expect 
> this to work?

OK, you're not trying to say join a machine over a non-VPN tunneled 
public IP, are you? Please don't do that. Keep your network private 
and set up a VPN solution like openvpn if the answer to that question 
is true, then get back to me.
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> Kenny
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