Tunneled file sharing server - server

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 18:14:50 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> > Brain overload.
> 
> Ya, its confusing.  You might be able to get away with doing something like 
> stunnel, which is alot easier to impliment than a full strength encrypted 
> VPN.  Whatever you do, don't open NFS/SMB to the internet.

FreeS/WAN is the one I've chosen to spend my time on.  Why?  It is (theoretically) not a Linux-only solution, and has flexibility and power, as well as IPSEC being well-known through the Internet and a mandatory piece in the IPv6 spec...
IPSEC is available in some fashion on BSD (and other Unices), Cisco,  LinkSys (but then I said that already :) , NetGear, and many others.

I share both NCP and SMB shares (which are just grafted into my server's filesystem) through SMB.  It works great.  I can't help you on the NFS solution, since I have never actually run it.

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Matthew Carpenter
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