If you are doing this across the Internet, then I would be seriously concerned about security if I were you. By accessing your network share on the public Internet, you passed your username and password in plain text for anyone with a sniffer to see and abuse.
On the other hand, if you have a dial-up connection directly to your office/lab (some companies provide this, and it is a kind of VPN solution), then you should be fine. Dave On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 15:13, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hi > > That is funny. I am creating iso image of my files in the lab right now. > The only think I did was mount -t smbfs .... /mnt/share. It worked! It is > not a local LAN. As for the VPN I have no idea. > > Many thanks > > Ed > > On Sunday 17 February 2002 03:02 pm, you wrote: > > Ed, that won't work unless you have direct access to the other PC > > through either a local network (LAN) or a virtual private network (VPN). > > In your case, if your lab is not in your home, you will need a VPN set > > up so that your home PC thinks it is on the same network as your lab PC. > > > > Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup.
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