robert's recommendation sounds like the best way. i can make samba listen on
the public interface (the internet with the static ip) and just mount the
shares via that way. but: is this secure? is there some way of wrapping it
through ssh? (i've heard this concept used a lot, but never actually used it
in practice. links to url's would be greatly appreciated.) i know i could
then restrict ip access to those ports with iptables. if samba isnt the way
to go, any other suggestions?

comments/questions invited and appreciated.

tia,
jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeffrey Forman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Siglinux] accessing linux box from campus/internet


> At 09:08 PM 9/2/02 -0500, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> >which I use to share the internet with my roommates. i run samba
internally
> >so we all use it as a file server for mp3s and what not. but when i go on
> >campus, i take my laptop (dual boot win2k/debian) to be able to do
homework,
> >surf the web, check email, etc. i'd like to be able to access the files
on
> >the linux machine back home, on my laptop on campus. i read up on nfs,
but
>
> Why not just add your external IP address to the "interfaces" line in your
> smb.conf file...  then simply "\\<your-ip-address>" in Windows, or
> "mount -t smbfs \\\\<your-ip>\share /mount-point" if you're booted into
Linux
> and have SMB client support compiled into the kernel (syntax may not be
> totally correct here).
>
> Your Linux Samba box is the NAT box, so it actually has a public IP,
right?
>
> --rgiles
>
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