my .02, run ssh on the server and use winscp as the client. http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/download.phpB It looks like like ftp to the windoze users. And there is really nothing to install. http://winscp.vse.cz/download2.php?file=WinSCP2.exe
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, mark wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 15:50, Francis Lau wrote: > > As we do not have a very computer literate user base, we need to keep > > things simple. I've looked at coupling samba with ssl or kerberos, but > > both techniques will require the user to install a client and/or other > > software on their end. We are trying to avoid this and let the users save > > their files onto the server as though their share is on their local > > computer. Are there currently any other methods (samba or not) that would > > allow us to achieve this? (Samba's native encrypted passwords work great > > in this sense because the users do not have to do anything at all other > > than connecting to the server. Of course, the encrypted passwords are not > > very safe to begin with...) > > > > You are in between the proverbial rock and the proverbial hard place. I don't > know enough about other systems to really do this. My personal inclination > is to put security first and ease of user second. Which probably explains > all the yelling at my house when I tried to get my wife to use *nix. She now > uses windows and I provide the firewall on the *nix computer. But I digress. > > I thought that setting up a vpn connection with windows didn't involve users > adding different software. I've never done it, though.I know it may require > you to educate your users, but in my opinion you're going to be better off in > the end. > > There may be software that will allow users to access their filesystem via > https. I vaguely remember something like that. I might have been dreaming. > Or seen it on bugtraq with an announcement of some massive security hole. > > I'm hoping more technically adept people than myself chime in to give you > suggestions that better fit your criteria. > > mark > > ps Have you checked the archives? I know I've told people in the past flat > out NOT to do what you are thinking of, but I can't remember the response > from others. Worth a shot. > > mark > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
