[Samba] Samba Over A Wan

[Mike McMullen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Allison" <jra at samba.org>


> 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.
> -- 

Thanks Jeremy! Can you suggest an easy encryption service to use. Is OpenVPN
the way to go?

Thanks,

Mike