Server access using Samba from out side LAN.
Hey guys, I have a FreeBSD server and windows XP workstations in our LAN network.I use samba to access server files from XP machines. Very soon, I will be having a windows XP system outside our LAN that needs access to our FreeBSD server. Is there any way i can access the server data from that XP system the same way as i do from my workstations in our LAN. As far as i know, samba only works with the computers in same LAN, please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks in advance. Naveen - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Hey guys, I have a FreeBSD server and windows XP workstations in our LAN network.I use samba to access server files from XP machines. Very soon, I will be having a windows XP system outside our LAN that needs access to our FreeBSD server. Is there any way i can access the server data from that XP system the same way as i do from my workstations in our LAN. As far as i know, samba only works with the computers in same LAN, please correct me if I am wrong. You can configure Samba to server on different LANs, but I would strongly suggest that you do this only over a VPN connection. The Microsoft networking ports are frequent vectors for worms that infect the Microsoft virus, Windows, and many responsible ISPs block them at their border routers. These blocks go back about ten years to the WinNuke attacks which hit the netbios ports 137-139. We have customers doing this with the LinkSys VPN boxes (part number BEFVP41), on cable and DSL connections with excellent results. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 http://www.celestial.com/ You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.
Thanks for the reply. The XP system outside our LAN is not in another LAN. It is just an individual system. So does it work the same for this system. Could you please refer any good manual to achieve my goal. Thanks. Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Hey guys, I have a FreeBSD server and windows XP workstations in our LAN network.I use samba to access server files from XP machines. Very soon, I will be having a windows XP system outside our LAN that needs access to our FreeBSD server. Is there any way i can access the server data from that XP system the same way as i do from my workstations in our LAN. As far as i know, samba only works with the computers in same LAN, please correct me if I am wrong. You can configure Samba to server on different LANs, but I would strongly suggest that you do this only over a VPN connection. The Microsoft networking ports are frequent vectors for worms that infect the Microsoft virus, Windows, and many responsible ISPs block them at their border routers. These blocks go back about ten years to the WinNuke attacks which hit the netbios ports 137-139. We have customers doing this with the LinkSys VPN boxes (part number BEFVP41), on cable and DSL connections with excellent results. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 http://www.celestial.com/ You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Thanks for the reply. The XP system outside our LAN is not in another LAN. It is just an individual system. So does it work the same for this system. Could you please refer any good manual to achieve my goal. There are IPSec clients that run on XP that will connect to the LinkSys and similar VPN boxes from Netgear and others. As a general rule, no Windows box should ever be connected directly to the Internet as there are far too many ways for worms to access the Microsoft virus, Windows with a direct connection. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. -- Frederick Douglass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.
Ok, here is what i understood. I need to set up VPN server on my FreeBSD server giving permission to the outside XP system to access the server. On the outside XP system, I need to connect VPN box (eg. LinkSys part number BEFVP41) to the system and this one does not require any additional VPN client because the builtin IPSec client in XP machine will create a tunnel between the client and server. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks, naveen. Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Thanks for the reply. The XP system outside our LAN is not in another LAN. It is just an individual system. So does it work the same for this system. Could you please refer any good manual to achieve my goal. There are IPSec clients that run on XP that will connect to the LinkSys and similar VPN boxes from Netgear and others. As a general rule, no Windows box should ever be connected directly to the Internet as there are far too many ways for worms to access the Microsoft virus, Windows with a direct connection. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. -- Frederick Douglass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server access using Samba from out side LAN.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, samy lancher wrote: Ok, here is what i understood. I need to set up VPN server on my FreeBSD server giving permission to the outside XP system to access the server. On the outside XP system, I need to connect VPN box (eg. LinkSys part number BEFVP41) to the system and this one does not require any additional VPN client because the builtin IPSec client in XP machine will create a tunnel between the client and server. Please correct me if I am wrong. There's no need to set up anything on the FreeBSD box as far as the VPN is concerned. It just wants to route through the LinkSys box which knows about the VPN tunnels. You do need to configure Samba to broadcast to the remote machine in the global section (swat is your friend here as it has excellent on-line help for the Samba configuration). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. --GEORGE ORWELL ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
