[K12OSN] NFS Client for Windows

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Umm...Doug, I would strongly suggest looking into a VPN tunnel between 
those sites.  This is how we do it at our cable-modem-using satellite 
offices that aren't on our enterprise WAN.  If you're running straight 
SMB across the Internet, you're just begging to be cracked.

Please, for the good of your network and the people using it, consider 
looking into a VPN for this.

--TP

Doug Simpson wrote:

>Samba works fine over the internet if the ports are allowed.  I use that 
>here for direct connections between our Administration office and school 
>campuses.
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>DS
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>On Wed, 26 May 2004, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
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>>As far as I know Samba will only work on the local LAN not over the
>>internet.  I need off-site access to these types of files.  I know that
>>AFP offers AFP over TCP but that doesn't help me with Windows.
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com 
>>>[mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Mohr
>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:30 AM
>>>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>>>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] NFS Client for Windows
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>>>Jim Kronebusch wrote:
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>>>>Just curious as to why it is such a bad idea.  If I am doing 
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>>>something
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>>>>incredibly stupid I would like to know.  I just saw this as an easier
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>>>>way to share files real time remotely than setting up a VPN.  I have
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>>>>people all the time who have something like Quickbooks at 
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>>>work and want
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>>>>to be able to edit this at home as well.  Problem is they do not have
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>>>>access to the .qbk file from home.  I thought something like 
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>>>this would
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>>>>be an easy fix to store the .qbk on a linux server and 
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>>>export the share
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>>>>via nfs to the ip of the 2 clients that needed access to it.  Problem
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>>>>solved.  But maybe this is insane, I don't know enough yet 
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>>>to know the
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>>>>difference.
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>>>>I'll check out the MS link in the meantime.
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>Insane is the wrong word, but MS has never been very good at working 
>>>with other OS's.  I think that you should try the package 
>>>samba.  This 
>>>package makes it look to all computers of the network that 
>>>the computer 
>>>is an NT server.  If you enable SWAT is /etc/xinetd.d/swat 
>>>you shouldn't 
>>>have too much trouble with it.
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