Also, my arrogant attitude is largely due to the fact that nobody's reading my points.
I DO NOT want to install OpenVPN. I DO NOT want to run WinSCP. I DO NOT want to run an anonymous FTP server. I want to go: Start Run smb://IP_ADDRESS/sharename (username) (password) POOF. That is what I want. Period. It's not unreasonable; this is Samba, not some Win95 box waiting to be h4x0red. On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Gordon Russell wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:22:48 -0500 > From: Gordon Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] Firewall piercing - The Specified network name is no > longer available. > > Dude -- Your arrogant attitude towards getting help and resolving your > problem is not getting you anywhere -- its obviously problematic to pump > SMB/CIFS into the internet the way you would like to. Why don't you > look at a simpler solution like running an anonymous ftp server and then > your pathetic windoze users can just type: > > ftp://server/directory > > POOF > > > Please read my points on this sort of "solution" in the past. The whole > > REASON I want to use Plain Vanilla SMB is so I can walk up to ANY Windoze > > machine on the entire flippin' Internet and go: > > > > Start > > Run > > \\IP_ADDRESS\sharename > > (username) > > (password) > > > > POOF. > -- J. L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
