I would not open up netbios through a firewall...perhaps another option is to run a https server on the windows box (like apache) and then open up your firewall port to that machine...that way you can access your music on a internal windows machine using encryption, authentiction (w/ htaccess) and logging.
Making your printer accessible is another story...and another problem :) Thoughts? -scm EF:Eric Friedrich EF>Hey all- EF> Thanks in advance for answering my question, I've been struggling over EF>it for weeks. My setup here at college is an internal Lan of a Linux and EF>Win2k machines behind an OpenBSD firewall/NAT. I have shares on the w2k box, EF>like printer, possibly music that I would like to be able to access from the EF>internet with my laptop. I've considered using SSH tunnels, but I don't see EF>how that could work with NetBIOS. I also messed around with a VPN on OpenBSD EF>with isakmpd, but couldn't get that to work, most likely because my laptop EF>is XP and get's its IP address from DHCP. Are there any other solutions, EF>like using some sort of Samba proxy on the OBSD machine to authenticate me EF>with the 2k box. Or is using a VPN to connect a host to a net (tunnel mode, EF>i think) the best/most secure way of doing this. If someone has gotten xp EF>and openbsd working with only 1 static IP, it would be much appreciated if EF>they could post their config. EF> EF>Thanks, EF>Eric EF> EF> EF> EF>
