Dear all, I have a small network running Samba 3.0.2 on SuSE 9.1 and everything is working just PERFECT!!!! I am so proud to have Linux doing the most important job of all!! Now I am faced with a very good problem. I have a sales' man who has a laptop and wants to be able to work over the internet (via high speed connections DSL etc) on the Samba server. The linux machine is running a firewall and no connections what-so-ever are allowed from the internet. LAN requests are forwarded to the internet via squid so I have everything under control. At first I thought of entering in Samba the IP of his DSL connection so that only that IP would be allowed access from the outside - internet. Then again, I am too paranoid about security so I wanted to add a layer of security on top of that. Thought of SSL or something on those lines... Am too confused and too much of a roockie to take my chances. He has a Laptop running Win-2000 and he wants to connect and map all drives of the Samba server over the internet. i.e. be able to work from anywhere practicaly in the world as if he is at the office. Internet services are not my concern at this point. Can someone please help me on what to read?? Is there an online step-by-step guide that explains how one can do something like this using SSL? Digital certificates are always on my mind but I don't know how since I have never used the software that comes with linux for digital certificates etc ... Has anyone done anything like this before and could help me by sharing his experiences? Any help would be deeply appreciated!!! I thank you all in advance for your help! Chris