Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 14:44, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:17, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> > 
> > How can I do the tunneling? Any suggestions? IPSEC? SSH? etc? I'm new in
> > this.
> > 
> 
> SSH would be easy to try.  It can be configured for compression so might
> give you some improvement in throughput.
> 
> I have had success using ssh with compression for vnc and x-windows
> connections across the Internet.  It did improve the response times for
> me. 
> 
> > That's not largely a problem. The problem here is that I won't be able
> > to get a _real_time_ copy of the data. (unless I set up rsync like every
> > minute or so.. but the stress on the server and my notebook!)
> > 
> > Thanks guys. I guess there's nothing much that can be done. It's not
> > only Samba shares, even accessing windows shares are a _real_pain_
> > --
> 
> Maybe we need to step back from the problem a little.  Would nfs do the
> trick?  I have not used nfs much but I think the overhead is less than
> samba.  I take it one end point is a Windows box?  You might check out
> cygwin.  It has a lot of unix type tools available.  


Both are Linux Boxes. I've tried Both NFS and SMB. Both Sucks. NFS sucks even 
more than SMB. For some reason.