[Samba] Samba Over A Wan

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:59:17AM -0700, Mike McMullen wrote:
> 
> 1) Will Samba work over the internet?

Yes.

> 2) Can Samba connections be encrypted or do I need to look at
>    something like OpenVPN to provide that?

No connections are not encrypted, you need another service underneath
smb to do that.

> 3) Can I restrict connections over the internet to a single IP address?

Yes.

> 4) Anything else I should be aware of?

Lock it down. Tightly.

Jeremy.