I have been trying to connect to Samba over the Internet as I have static IP
that is publicly available for connection. I can use this IP to connect to our
Intranet web site but Samba doesn't work correctly when trying to connect to it
from outside. Our internal network addresses work fine. Even a VPN
connection, which gets our internal address scheme works. But, when trying to
use the publicly available IP address to connect to Samba it can't find it.
There are likely a couple things preventing access:
1. Did you open the Samba ports on your firewall? Most firewalls have
these ports closed by default.
2. Hosts allow/Hosts deny parameter. Is this set so that Samba will
actually respond to the subnet that you are trying to access Samba from?
IMO, opening Samba up to the internet is an inherently bad thing to do
and something that very rarely really needs to be done. Instead, you
should look at an ssh tunnel or an IPSec VPN.
I use IPsec VPN routers to connect my two offices, which are both on
different subnets and in different Citys. The routers I used are fairly
inexpensive, but work wonderfully and are very easy to setup:
http://www.netgear.com/Products/VPNandSSL/WiredVPNFirewallRouters/FVS114.aspx
Greg
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Greg J. Zartman, P.E.
President, Principal Engineer
LEI Engineering & Surveying
2468 West 11th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon 97402
Voice 541-683-8383 Fax 541-683-8144
www.leiinc.com
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