Re: [Samba] best way to access samba shares remotely without VPN
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Chris Weiss cwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Janantha Marasinghe jananth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering what is the best way to access samba shares securely over the net. I saw sslbridge and davenport but they don't seem to be managed properly. I was thinking of using webdav via https. I dont want to use VPN as im using openvpn and it is not support well with Mac iOS and OSX client. webdav is supported well. webdav would be not using samba at all, unless you mean having a web server smb mount a samba share and export that via webdav, but that's indirectly samba. You could also just use a php/python/ruby/whatever based web file manager I've had good success with the WebDAV approach. It supports built-in directory access control, unlike SCP or SFTP, and is accessible from all web capable clients for read access, and for plenty of portable high quality clients for web access. I highly recommend it to repolace FTP, FTPS, and SFTP, especially since it runs well on the normal HTTPS port, which is much easier to manage in normal corporate firewall and proxy setups. (You don't have to get special setups or permission) It doesn't give the gind of fileystem permissions management that CIFS supported by Samba, or that NFS or other such tools would. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] best way to access samba shares remotely without VPN
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Janantha Marasinghe jananth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering what is the best way to access samba shares securely over the net. I saw sslbridge and davenport but they don't seem to be managed properly. I was thinking of using webdav via https. I dont want to use VPN as im using openvpn and it is not support well with Mac iOS and OSX client. webdav is supported well. webdav would be not using samba at all, unless you mean having a web server smb mount a samba share and export that via webdav, but that's indirectly samba. You could also just use a php/python/ruby/whatever based web file manager if osx lets you specify a port for the connection, you could ssh tunnel port 445 for each server behind the firewall, which is also a sort of vpn (in the loosest definition). other than that, accessing samba remotely requires a vpn of some sort to not have it hammered by malware thinking it's a windows box. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] best way to access samba shares remotely without VPN
Hi all, I'm wondering what is the best way to access samba shares securely over the net. I saw sslbridge and davenport but they don't seem to be managed properly. I was thinking of using webdav via https. I dont want to use VPN as im using openvpn and it is not support well with Mac iOS and OSX client. webdav is supported well. Regards J -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
