samba - Sep 2005 - Samba Over A Wan

Hi All,

I have a customer that I need to give access to one of our servers over a WAN.
Their box is running some windows server version and they use terminal services
to let their employees access their applications.

We use Samba in or local office environment where it works quite well. I need
to know the following:

1) Will Samba work over the internet?

2) Can Samba connections be encrypted or do I need to look at
    something like OpenVPN to provide that?

3) Can I restrict connections over the internet to a single IP address?

4) Anything else I should be aware of?

TIA,

Mike

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.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Allison" <jra@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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Mike McMullen schrieb:
| Hi All,
|
| I have a customer that I need to give access to one of our servers over
| a WAN.
| Their box is running some windows server version and they use terminal
| services
| to let their employees access their applications.
|
| We use Samba in or local office environment where it works quite well. I
| need
| to know the following:
|
| 1) Will Samba work over the internet?
|
| 2) Can Samba connections be encrypted or do I need to look at
|    something like OpenVPN to provide that?
|
| 3) Can I restrict connections over the internet to a single IP address?
|
| 4) Anything else I should be aware of?
|
| TIA,
|
| Mike
|
|
Hi,
if you use openvpn with tap interface all kind of connections will work
include smb
Regards

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Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Best Regards
Robert Schetterer

robert_at_schetterer.org
Munich / Bavaria / Germany
https://www.schetterer.org

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