Mike McMullen schrieb:
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Over A Wan
I'm currently using OpenVPN to allow access to Samba over WAN. Works
pretty good but my experience has been that browsing shares and
directory structures over the WAN can be somewhat frustrating to
users. I believe this is b/c windows file sharing is a pretty heavy
protocal and our WAN connection is only 768bps up and down. You'll
also want to be using WINS for name resolution unless you're bridging
your OpenVPN subnet with your local subnet which I would avoid doing
if possible.
David
Hi David! Thank you for your feedback. Our connection is a T1. The people
would be accessing a folder that has 3 folders in it with < 200 files in
each folder.
The connection would be their box to our box only. Would I still need WINS
in this scenario? I'm not up on Windows requirements.
we're too using Samba over the OpenVPN link.
using WINS in your case would would be better than just relying on
broadcasting - if you want to rely on broadcasting, that means that much
more data would be going both ways, and it's be much more difficult to
set up (OpenVPN using less efficient tap interfaces (pseudo ethernet;
less efficient because ethernet frames would be pushed through = more
data, etc.)
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Tomek
http://wpkg.org
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