samba - Mar 2009 - how to access samba server from remote location

Dear all,

We have redhat 9 linux server configured with samba server. We have share
folder in which we have lot of information. We want to all the users from
our different branch office to access the samba server and share the
information.

In the local network we map the samba share folder as a drive. How to do
the same in the remote location.

Pls guide me.

Regards
M.Saravanan
CCAT LTD
302, Koon Fook Centre,
9, Knutsford Terrace,
T.S.T, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Phone: 28516318
Mobile : 61000856
Fax: 37434866

Muthukumaran Saravanan escribi?:
> Dear all,
>
> We have redhat 9 linux server configured with samba server. We have share
> folder in which we have lot of information. We want to all the users from
> our different branch office to access the samba server and share the
> information.
>
> In the local network we map the samba share folder as a drive. How to do
> the same in the remote location.
>
> Pls guide me.
>
> Regards
> M.Saravanan
> CCAT LTD
> 302, Koon Fook Centre,
> 9, Knutsford Terrace,
> T.S.T, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
> Phone: 28516318
> Mobile : 61000856
> Fax: 37434866
>
>
>
>   
I have accomplished this by setting a VPN between the two locations 
using OpenVPN and then setting a PDC+BDC with an OpenLDAP user backend. 
It's all very well explained in the "Samba by example" that you
can read
in the samba site.

Best regards, David Wells.

hi:

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Muthukumaran Saravanan
<saravanan@ccatgroup.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We have redhat 9 linux server configured with samba server. We have share
> folder in which we have lot of information. We want to all the users from
> our different branch office to access the samba server and share the
> information.
>
How are connected your branc offices? Are they communicating trough a
VPN connection? If yes, then I think that NetBIOS among other
broadcast traffic will not pass trough this VPN connection.

So all the remote users have to do is poing to the Samba server by its
IP address and their corresponding share name. Something like this it
would be executed at Windows:

\\IP_ADDRESS\sharename

Once connected, they will be able to use that share as a drive.
> In the local network we map the samba share folder as a drive. How to do
> the same in the remote location.
>
> Pls guide me.
>
> Regards
> M.Saravanan
> CCAT LTD
> 302, Koon Fook Centre,
> 9, Knutsford Terrace,
> T.S.T, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
> Phone: 28516318
> Mobile : 61000856
> Fax: 37434866
>
>
>
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1@gmail.com>
wrote:
> hi:
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Muthukumaran Saravanan
> <saravanan@ccatgroup.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > We have redhat 9 linux server configured with samba server. We have
share
> > folder in which we have lot of information. We want to all the users
from
> > our different branch office to access the samba server and share the
> > information.
> >
> How are connected your branc offices? Are they communicating trough a
> VPN connection? If yes, then I think that NetBIOS among other
> broadcast traffic will not pass trough this VPN connection.
>
> So all the remote users have to do is poing to the Samba server by its
> IP address and their corresponding share name. Something like this it
> would be executed at Windows:
>
> \\IP_ADDRESS\sharename
>
> Once connected, they will be able to use that share as a drive.
>
The only problem with this is that a great many ISPs filter this type of
traffic, for security reasons. I have had ISPs filter it for both inbound
and outbound. Sometimes I am able to convince them to unblock it for me, and
sometimes I am not.

-wes

> The only problem with this is that a great many ISPs filter this type of
> traffic, for security reasons. I have had ISPs filter it for both inbound
> and outbound. Sometimes I am able to convince them to unblock it for me,
and
> sometimes I am not.
>
> -wes
>   
Hence the VPN between the branches so that you access an IP in a private 
space and no the public IP of the server.

Best regards, David Wells.