On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 17:21, J. Craig Woods wrote: > "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 > > Of course this will work (not sure what Dave was thinking about) but > please do not say that this is *all* you needed to do in order to mount > your remote export! What no password, and are you encrypted? Surely you > do not have all your nmb and smb ports (138 & 139) open to the world! > Say it ain't so......
My assumption was that his lab (and possibly his home) would be protected by a firewall to prevent exactly this kind of thing. See my direct response to Ed. Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup.
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