Viewing a suse server/samba drives over a large geographic location
Hi, I work for a company in the north of England and one of our offices in Scotland is using a suse server set up with samba drives for the users to use. I can ftp, telnet and http into this server, what I want to know is, is there any way I can view the server in Glasgow through my network locations??? I am using Windows XP.... Is it possible for me to see the same samba drive as the suers in scotland? and if so how? Cheers DB
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:07:15PM +0100, it.ho@fsb.org.uk wrote:
Hi, I work for a company in the north of England and one of our offices in Scotland is using a suse server set up with samba drives for the users to use. I can ftp, telnet and http into this server, what I want to know is, is there any way I can view the server in Glasgow through my network locations??? I am using Windows XP.... Is it possible for me to see the same samba drive as the suers in scotland? and if so how?
Yes. Is the link private or public? If it's private, you should be able to just connect directly. If it's public, then you should really use some kind of secure link - set up a VPN connection between the server and your WinXP box, and then connect directly over that. In fact, if it's public, you shouldn't be using telnet and FTP anyway. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
Damian: On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:07 am, Damian Buckley wrote:
Hi, I work for a company in the north of England and one of our offices in Scotland is using a suse server set up with samba drives for the users to use. I can ftp, telnet and http into this server, what I want to know is, is there any way I can view the server in Glasgow through my network locations??? I am using Windows XP.... Is it possible for me to see the same samba drive as the suers in scotland? and if so how?
Cheers
DB
Yes, it is possible. As others have said, you can set up a VPN connection between the two physical locations, but it will be SLOW. This would be the normal way to accomplish things. How much bandwidth do you have between locations? I've done this for clients over ADSL and the connection is great for VNC or Windows Terminal Server, but unless you have at least an OC3 (T-3) pipe between the two, you'd be suprised at how slow things will seem. Remember, even 10BaseT is at least 10 times faster than a T-1. Bear in mind, this is for a Samba\Windows share. On the other hand, FTP, telnet, and http would work just fine. For security, I'd strongly recommend that you use SSH and SFTP instead. If you're just sharing document files, FTP/SFTP would suffice. Sharing an application, though, requires a VPN connection and VNC or Windows Terminal Server. (I'm an open-source advocate, but many business apps are Windows-Only and my clients call the shots, so, Terminal Server gets used most of the time.) -- --------------------------------------------------- Dave Grosvold dave@rcanyon.com ---------------------------------------------------
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