Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 19:21, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > true.. Well right now, using samba is also w/o encryption. I just
> > managed to find out how "fast" it is.
> >
> > I just did a port forwarding with Compression using SSH they way satish
> > mentioned, and used tcptrack to measure the connection speed as I copy a
> > file from my local drive to the mount point
> >
> > I see transfer of like 4KB/s. Now, that's bad. SCP can get me like
> > 100+KB/s
> 
> I guess latencies do affect SMB..

I guess they do. So, In effect, I see 2 options which I can try now.

1. lupfs
2. WebDAV. which, to me, unless it can be mounted and I can
 perform a File->Save and browse to it, won't be of much use to me.

I'll see how it goes