On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:59:41PM +0300, Chris Roubekas wrote: [snip]
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?
You want to set up a VPN, so his laptop appears to be part of your LAN, even though it's not. The VPN handles the authentication and encyption, so you don't have to worry (any more) about that in Samba. Do some reading on VPNs and IPSec. Make sure the user is clued up on proper IT security, so that their laptop doesn't become a way to bypass your firewalling (e.g. user gets virus from open internet, then connects to your LAN, transferring it in). HTH... -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2