Wouldn't OpenVPN be a bit more robust for that application?

Not that ssh is the wrong way, just that if you know the endpoints most of 
the time, OpenVPN gives you a more stable connection.
It also has the upside of not having much issue with firewalls.

Luke


On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, David Godfrey wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Please contact me off list. I have a set of scripts that should allow
> you do "painlessly" make remote connections via an ssh tunnel.
>
> Eventually I will publish these scripts at
> http://www.sbts.com.au/lsmb/addons.php but for now there is a bit too
> much modification required for any specific client to make that a good idea.
>
> We have been using these scripts for quite some time and they work well.
>
> Personally I would never open the lsmb server directly to the web, it is
> fairly trivial to do the access via a tunnel which is generally far more
> secure.
>
> Also a tunnel allows you to use compression, which can speed up
> transfers on slow connections.
>
>
> Regards
>
> David G
>
>
> beamends wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> not strictly a LSMB issue.....
>>
>> I'm trying to login from a remote location (i.e. the other side of our
>> router), but after the "small" login screen that usually vanishes to be
>> replaced by the real LSMB login screen Apache throws up "Internal Server
>> Error". I've been here before but for the life of can't remember what it
>> is that I should be configuring!
>>
>> Sorry for being in thick mode - it's Friday, nearly home time and it's
>> been a long week!
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Richard
>
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