secure samba over WAN

Yan Seiner yan at cardinalengineering.com
Fri Jan 11 14:15:10 GMT 2002


If you're running linux-linux, look at vtun.sourceforge.net.  It's easy
to configure, has kernel support, is very fast, stable, and lighweight.

Then run SMB over it.  I've been doing that for 3 years; it works.

--Yan

Ken Cobler wrote:
> 
> Tony Rich wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >   I am new to the samba environment. I was wondering if
> > someone could point me to a location of documentation for
> > samba over a WAN. I have two locations I would like to map
> > drives from/to over the internet, and I am worried about
> > security. Any help would be appreceated.
> >
> 
> Is it a single workstation that you are remotely connecting?  Then you
> could use Microsoft VPN and pptp software (freely available source
> http://poptop.lineo.com) .  Granted, there are some minor security risks
> with Microsoft's VPN solution.  I have configured this.  It took a
> little while to get the kinks worked out, but, it's manageable  and I
> view it is more secure than opening your machine to the Internet.
> 
> To be absolutely certain, the only way that I know of to connect
> machines together (regardless what they are running, i.e., Windows,
> Linux, Unix, etc.) over the Internet, is IPSEC (IP Secure).
> 
> There is a free implementation of IPSEC (built for Linux), but the
> source is available and may work in other environments.  FreeSWAN is the
> software (www.freeswan.org).  Though FreeSWAN (via IPSEC) is secure,
> it's not for the faint of heart to configure. You will pull out some
> hairs getting it to work.
> 
> Ken Cobler
> 
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