Re: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-25 Thread Toby Bluhm
Kevin Bailey wrote: We've had reasonable success with Netdrive accessing FTP shares from PC's for file reading and saving. I've tried SSH - no joy, SFTPShare is buggy and crashes Windows explorer. Also, tried using encrypted data/comms channels over FTP using Vsftpd - again problems wit

Re: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Condic
Could you post the batch files here. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

[Samba] Samba tunneling over SSH - does the ssh login count RE permissions

2009-02-25 Thread Kevin Bailey
Kevin Bailey wrote: Michael Heydon wrote: Kevin Bailey wrote: Also, we had trouble setting up a VPN from his house - can't remember the details apart from the fact that it was BT's fault! Was this using OpenVPN or PPTP? OpenVPN is much more flexible than PPTP and will happily work across all

Re: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-25 Thread Kevin Bailey
Michael Heydon wrote: Kevin Bailey wrote: Also, we had trouble setting up a VPN from his house - can't remember the details apart from the fact that it was BT's fault! Was this using OpenVPN or PPTP? OpenVPN is much more flexible than PPTP and will happily work across all but the most stubbor

Re: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Heydon
Kevin Bailey wrote: Also, we had trouble setting up a VPN from his house - can't remember the details apart from the fact that it was BT's fault! Was this using OpenVPN or PPTP? OpenVPN is much more flexible than PPTP and will happily work across all but the most stubborn connections (also i

Re: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-24 Thread Kevin Bailey
Mike Messick wrote: Hi Kevin, You might take a look at openvpn instead - http://openvpn.net. I've had great success for 3+ years using openvpn on my samba server and having windows machines accessing shares via the vpn link. Since openvpn can use udp as well it provides a much more resilient t

Re: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-24 Thread Kevin Bailey
Thanks for the offer of sending the script off-list - that would be good because I'm still struggling to get the XP machines to connect. It was strange because when I first carried out the steps in the instructions the shares showed up straight away - even mapped the share to a drive letter an

RE: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-24 Thread RUTH, JONATHAN C
I successfully connect to Samba using plink (part of the PuTTY family of apps). I've also written a script to map the Samba share under WinXP. I can send you the bat files off list or post them if there's interest. Jon > Kevin Bailey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone successfully got a Windows

Re: [Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-24 Thread Kevin Bailey
Kevin Bailey wrote: Hi, Has anyone successfully got a Windows PC to access Samba over an SSH tunnel. This first of all worked immediately - but now seems to have stopped. I've tried with using putty and myentunnel to set up the tunnel - and these are working when I test against a web serve

[Samba] Tunneling over SSH

2009-02-24 Thread Kevin Bailey
Hi, Has anyone successfully got a Windows PC to access Samba over an SSH tunnel. This first of all worked immediately - but now seems to have stopped. I've tried with using putty and myentunnel to set up the tunnel - and these are working when I test against a web server. I've followed in