[Samba] Samba Over A Wan

[David Miller]

I'm currently using OpenVPN to allow access to Samba over WAN. Works pretty 
good but my experience has been that browsing shares and directory 
structures over the WAN can be somewhat frustrating to users. I believe this 
is b/c windows file sharing is a pretty heavy protocal and our WAN 
connection is only 768bps up and down. You'll also want to be using WINS for 
name resolution unless you're bridging your OpenVPN subnet with your local 
subnet which I would avoid doing if possible.

David

On 9/6/05, Mike McMullen <mlm at loanprocessing.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- 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
> 
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