[H-GEN] SAMBA Project

[David Wood]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Wood <dwood at plugged.net.au>)

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Anthony Ison wrote:
> I haven't done a whole lot with SAMBA yet.  I have managed to set it up,
> though - and got my little home LAN working just nicely.  Unfortunately, one
> of those PC's belongs to my flat mate, who is moving out really soon.  Just
> wondering if it possible to use Samba over the net?  Is that any different
> to a local LAN?

The SMB protocol was meant to be used only on a LAN.  That is, you
can't access SMB servers on the other side of a router.

You can fake it, though, with something like the Point-to-Point
Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), which is the M$ answer.  Alternately,
you could use another VPN-like solution or even bridge it with 
NFS :)

Note that this applies not only to Samba, but also to M$ SMB
implementations.

Cheers,
Dave
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