RE: [Samba] Drive letter map to Samba using ssh or scp?
Jonathan, Shouldn't there be someway of using SSH or SCP to transparently connect to a Samba share, and have the share appear as a drive letter? Yes, there should be. http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Samba-with-SSH/ That's for linux2linux. For windows2linux try also: http://www.bitvise.com/file-sharing.html -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Drive letter map to Samba using ssh or scp?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan, Shouldn't there be someway of using SSH or SCP to transparently connect to a Samba share, and have the share appear as a drive letter? Yes, there should be. http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Samba-with-SSH/ Yours sincerely, - -- Mark Suter [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have often regretted my Miju Systems - http://www.miju.com.au/ | speech, never my silence. mobile 0411 262 316 gnupg key 2C71D63D | Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Check Keyservers or http://zwitterion.org/keys/ iD8DBQE+/pRJRYso2ixx1j0RAuAvAJ9+smVTM9estX61uVzbkbj3gyR2CgCfeZZ9 uFVOuKtLftDYMFAL1CLm4+E= =2Vhf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Drive letter map to Samba using ssh or scp?
OK, what I want to do is access files on my Samba server remotely. Currently, I can use WinSCP, but this isn't ideal because [...] Anyone done anything like this? I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Don't know how it will work apart from VPN. Unfortunately a samba/windows world is very much tied to broadcasts. That's how it works... I have yet to see someone forwarding broadcasts through a ssh tunnel. You can quit using broadcasts if you don't want to use network neighborhood on the remote net. You'll do it with ssh by forwarding 139 but there is a catch: this ties you to accessing a single samba machine at a time! Users do not have to type complicated command lines each time. That's what .bat files are used for ;-) You make a bat file with ssh command to connect to the remote host and the user clicks it on the desktop; it only asks for a password. Some SSL gurus please step in and enlighten us about certificates and alike, I'm sure you can avoid passwords too!! Only once, you the windows admin modify the lmhosts file to point the name of the remote samba machine to 127.0.0.1. Then after the ssh connection is established you can access the remote machine in explorer with \\remote\sharename. Use IE's bookmarks features, name the shares accordingly. I know it's an ugly hack and it sucks badly but until some brave hart makes a VPN-how-to the magnitude Kurt Pfeifle did for samba printing it seems the only way... :-| -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Drive letter map to Samba using ssh or scp?
OK, what I want to do is access files on my Samba server remotely. Currently, I can use WinSCP, but this isn't ideal because it is more like an FTP client, where you have to download a file, edit it, upload it. I could set up a VPN (using open source software), but these can be kind of a headache to get working (I've done it before) and they don't necessarily support multiple simultaneous connections. I could set up an SSH tunnel, but this is awkward and I don't want to teach (l)users how to do this (getting them to type anything from a command line -- correctly -- is like herding cats or pushing a rope). I want realtime access -- that is, open/save files from an application using the standard API's but have the files on the remote system instead of my local workstation. Shouldn't there be someway of using SSH or SCP to transparently connect to a Samba share, and have the share appear as a drive letter? I envision a GUI that prompts for an internet hostname, an SSH user/pass; a Samba server name and Samba user/pass. Done properly, the SSH server could be on the LAN, and allow you to connect to ANY smb server (Window inc.) on the LAN. Logging in using this UI sets up an SSH tunnel automatically, presents a list of available shares; you can then select one and a drive letter to map it to. A configuration could be saved so that the connection is made automatically when the user logs in to his own workstation. Basically, I guess, this would be a GUI for SSH tunnels. OK, so maybe this is getting awfully close to VPN. But since SSH is already there and would require no additional setup, wouldn't there be easy way to take advantage of it? Anyone done anything like this? I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. --Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
