On Monday 23 August 2004 15:59, Chris Roubekas wrote:
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.
Does the Samba server handle your internet connection/firewall too, or is that a different box? I would use a separate box for that and put a vpn server on that. That way he could have access to all the services inside the lan without you having to make those services open on your gateway. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za