My Bad, I should hgave said "... Since not everyone on the internet is trustworthy..." :-)
---------------------------------------------- Tony Hoover, Network Administrator KSU - Salina, College of Technology and Aviation (785) 826-2660 "Don't Blend in..." ---------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:36 AM To: Hoover, Tony Cc: "Mössler, Michael"; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba and the Internet discussion On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:32:05AM -0600, Hoover, Tony wrote: > If you trust EVERYONE on the internet, yes you could use Samba on the > internet without using a VPN. Since everyone on the internet is not > trustworthy, it is not a wise idea. Well, I'd put it a bit differently (I do know some trustworthy people active "on the internet"), but you're right: You definitely want a VPN to tunnel Samba traffic. The Samba/smbclient specific in-band transport encryption unfortunately made it anywhere else so far. With best regards, Volker Lendecke -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
