[Samba] Secure Network Transport HOWTO

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 03:00:56AM +0000, david_wells_77 at yahoo.com.ar wrote:
> I'm uncertain if samba provides any kind of secure transport functionalities. However you could, for example, setup an openvpn link between your workstation and the server and have samba only listen on the virtual ethernet device on the server. 

smbclient -> Samba using the UNIX extensions
provides transport level encryption (use smbclient -e
to request encryption). This is currently being added
into the Linux kernel client.

Jeremy.