[plug] Secure samba shares possible over the net?

[Steve Boak]

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:25, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <03030523574301.01456 at neddy>
>
> on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:57:43PM -0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> > One of my users (that I trust) wants to access samba shares from
> > home (ie dialup, dynamic IP address). I have Mandrake 9.0, Samba
> > and shorewall running on the server, all going nicely over the
> > LAN, but I'm a little worried about opening a hole in the
> > firewall.
>
> If you are happy to have traffic from the contacting host
> authenticated (probably the bit you're most after) and optionally
> encrypted, you could use some protocol such as IPsec or (with
> varying degrees of insecurity for Microsoft's implementations, I
> hear) PPTP.

Thanks - I'll have a play with authentication. If I can't figure it 
out, I'll be back!

Steve

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