Mike McMullen wrote:
----- 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?
Well you could map the drive by IP addy instead. I have 10 offices
connected by IPSEC encapsulated VLan. Users access the resources on the
various drives on various servers over the vlan. Sure it can be a bit
sluggish, but it's not horrible.
I'm not up on Windows requirements.
Thanks,
Mike
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