[Samba] Re: Access Samba Servers from the Internet?

[cantisan]

> This is certainly possible, but might not be so advisable. It would be
more
> secure to set-up a VPN connection from your client to your host and then
> login that way. Of course, it is possible to access your SMB share through
a
> windoze machine by the \\SERVER_IP\SHARE_NAME method. It will work, but
> seems terribly insecure to me!
> "DrTebi" <drtebi at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:0003b0ff31e6ee0a_mailit at smtp.mail.yahoo.com...



I agree, Try to use a http protocol to browse your file server... I never
open a netbios port to the internet...