[Samba] samba and vpn

[Ariel Mella]

I think that this is a good idea. Actually there is some software that do
that, i cannot remember what, but maybe you could search at freshmeat for
this.
But the reality reflects that the software you are asking for is not task of
the samba team and has nothing to do with it.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodríguez Ronald" <rrodriguez at ocp-ec.com>
To: "Thomas, Daniel J." <Daniel.Thomas at jhuapl.edu>; "Ionel GARDAIS"
<igardais at yahoo.fr>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: [Samba] samba and vpn


Hi friends..

In my humble opinion the samba Team should be thinking on integrating a
web file manager (https) that reflects all samba configuration
(smb.conf). In this way file shares could  be seen from a microsoft
network and from the Internet.. Microsoft sooner or later (or already
has..) will implement this kind of features with their files shares...?


Keep on with the good work..

Regards

Ronald Rodriguez


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas, Daniel J. [mailto:Daniel.Thomas at jhuapl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:10 AM
To: 'Ionel GARDAIS'; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: [Samba] samba and vpn


Well, where there is a will there is a way... assuming funding is
available,
however... If this is for a school (which I know tend to have limited
budgets), you might not want to rule out FTP.  If you create a VPN
solution,
you have to ensure that all the users have VPN connectivity on their
home PC
and that the VPN functions correctly on the server end.  THEN you have
to
make sure that Samba is configured correctly on top of that.  Although
VPN
may have a high "cool" factor, it may not be practical.  FTP software is
usually simple to configure and can be downloaded and installed at home.

Any Machine with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or high has FTP
functionality
built into their browser.  If you want to standardize things, you might
see
if there is some sort of educational sight license for a particular
piece
FTP software such as WS FTP or Cute FTP.  This would be much simpler to
configure and use.

Remember the basic rule of Systems Development:
KISS:

Keep It Simple Stupid!

-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ionel GARDAIS [mailto:igardais at yahoo.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:37 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] samba and vpn


Hi,

i have set up a samba 2.2.2 as a PDC in my school LAN

I want students to be able to access their share at
home.

is it possible to do it via a VPN ?
is it possible for them to authentify against the PDC
via the VPN ?

if not, is there a solution to this (except FTP or
NFS) ?

thanks,
ionel

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