[Samba] About access the samba server through VPN connection

Spike Burkhardt burkhardt.richard at ssd.loral.com
Mon Jan 24 16:44:47 GMT 2005


John,

  The only difference between using samba normally & VPN would be thru
Security.  We found that if Security = Domain, the machine would need to be
registered in the domain.  We decided that we didn't want that kind of
management overhead so we use Security = Server.

HTH,

spike

John Wong wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Is there any restriction for access the samba server through the VPN
> connection.
>
> We are trying to do the remote access the samba server through the VPN
> client.  And the VPN server isn't apply any rule for blocking any service.
>
> Any suggestion we can do???
>
> Best regards,
> John Wong
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas M. Skeren III [mailto:tms3 at fskklaw.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:43 AM
> To: John Wong
> Cc: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] About access the samba server through VPN
> connection
>
> John Wong wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >
> >We are facing the problem for accessing the samba server through the VPN
> >connection.
> >
> >
> How's the VPN done?
>
> >And  also using the samba-2.2.3a-6 with the Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Kernel
> >2.4.18-3).
> >
> >
> Really old version. You should upgrade.
>
> >Any solution can provide??
> >
> >Best regards,
> >John
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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