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...s installed at the client endpoints, but that would require a AP> overwhelming budget. We are also thinking about L2TP and PPPoE, but I AP> am uncertain about compatibility. AP> What would you recommand ? Are there any other elegant solutions ? VPN (pptp) solution work just fine both potop and mpd on server side and with any win box on client side, even win'95 with patch from microsoft.com. There is could be problem with MAC OS - i didn't find pptp-client for it but it should be, i think. Also FreeBSD and Linux has pptp-clients. And the last, you can use cheap hardware pptp-c...

Once you have Samba shares up and running on the internal network, how do you go about making them available (browsable) via the Internet--a VPN? I hate to say it but in Windows 2k it's just a matter of a few clicks on the server and client. I'm hoping that it's not much harder with a Linux server/Windows client. Anything involving something like SSH will be too hard for most users.