Actually your are VERY right and I am now really looking into a VPN solution.
Thnaks for the advice. Lonnie > Yeech, you seems to want to broadcast all that NetBIOS stuff > into the WAN connection that we're all spending years trying > to block :( > > First, I will warn you .... opening those ports on your firewall > with any OS (particuarly the Win9x/ME group) is pretty much > like using a piece of cardboard to stop a tank. Opening up > ssh/sftp or IPSec would be _highly_ recommended to doing NetBIOS. > > > In fact, I am not sure that this would work at all w/o VPN > because of the name resolution and MAC addressing. I wouldn't > suggest > WINS here at all, but you may come up with something possibly > with a hosts or lmhosts file(s) on both computers. WINS > addressing and DNS are similar, yet worlds apart in reality which > makes me > think that this would be very difficult to accomplish regardless > of what you do to the firewall. > > In my experience, I would either do ftp w/address filtering (and > permissions), VPN, or ssh/sftp with the emphasis on the latter > two. > -- > > ~Lynn Avants > aka Guitarlynn > > guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net > http://leaf.sourceforge.net > > If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong > question! > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundries!!!" _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
