samba - Dec 1997 - Accessing Samba share over the Internet

Hi,

I want to connect to a share on a Samba server over the Internet.  I have
the Samba server installed and working OK (for NT clients at least) but when
I connect from my NT workstation over the Internet I get 'Invalid
Handle'
dialogs when I try to map a network drive.  I think it should be OK but one
major difference is the remote NT workstation is not a member of the domain
in which the Samba server or LAN NT clients are.  Does this make any
difference (assuming I connect with a user specified as
'<domain>\<username>').  This kind of connection is OK for
mapping drives to
NT server over the Internet.

On the whole I'm very fuzzy about the Authentication subject and encryption
as well.  Are there some good documents for background reading (apart from
the ones found in the .../samba-1.9.17p4/docs directory.

TIA,


Simon Greener
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Hi

I wrote two times to this mailing list about the problems when opening
share an so on. I now solved this problem - it was just a silly mistake
made by me. My server hat the same name as the workgroup it was in - this
caused all my troubles. 

					Greeting, fgp

samba@samba.anu.edu.au wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:37:35 +0100 (MET)
> From: Bartlomiej Czardybon <czar@silesia.pik-net.pl>
> To: samba@anu.edu.au (Samba List)
> Subject: smblib
> Message-ID: <199712171837.TAA17341@david.silesia.pik-net.pl>
>
> What is the status of this software ?  Is there anobody taking care of it ?
To be perfectly honest, I have no idea.  I have not heard Richard say much at
all
recently - then again I cannot say that I have made a point of speaking to him
directly either.

> I ask, because I've got incredible and strange problems using it
> (SIGSEGVs in library routines...) and I want to ask if this
> is reliable software...
I have had similar problems in regard to porting SMBlib to other architectures.

> OR: is there any project ongoing which hash an aim to make a user
> friendly library of routines to use windows shares from "C" ?
I was or more correctly *am* in the process of re-writing parts of it.  Trouble
is
though, I have lots to do and doing this is in addition to everything else that
I
have to do, so re-writing often gets dropped to the bottom of my todo list.

> I want to point that in list of 'Related Software' in README of
> main directory of samba distributions is written:
>
> - smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it
> easy to smb-ise any particular application. See
> ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/smblib.
>
> .. well... is there anybody who used this code with success ?
Yep.  I have.

Only problems I have really had are with really to do with porting in regard to
the
way parts of it are written.

In general, the SMBlib distribution (as of SMBlib-0.50) is becoming a little
dated
relative to SAMBA itself.

What would be lovely is if someone just picked up SMBlib (Richard... are you
listening.... :-) ) and either added all of the other bits and pieces that we
now
know about now or maybe totally re-wrote it from scratch.

At least, fully GNU'ise it (with configure script and all).

Ultimately I may get around to doing this if someone else doesn't but my
main
interest in the SMBlib as it currently stands is a method of authenticating
which
is what I use it for right now ... or more correctly ...  parts of it ... and in
general that seems to work fine.

Brendon Meyer
Exploration Division - PT Freeport Indonesia
(Brendon_Meyer@fmi.com)