RE: connectivity question

2005-07-13 Thread Guy Teverovsky
If you feel comfortable with patching the RHEL's kernel, you can configure IPSec in so called opportunistic mode with pre-shared keys when you do not establish an actual tunnel, but force encryption of the traffic between the two boxes. If you were running 2.6 kernel, that would probably be the

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Lieberman
Hetz Yes there is a good way - WebDav. We have just implemented WebDav on Apache in a Linux Server RH3 in hosting (rackspace) with remote W2003 servers and XP boxes WebDav is well supported on both O/S's, its quite efficient and connections are persistent. You setup WebDav on Apache with

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:08:43AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: What I'm trying to do - is to make a permanent connection between the 2 servers. Microsoft Services for UNIX. Free (as in beer, not open source). Provides you with an almost complete posix environment including a telnet daemon, a

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:57:09AM +0200, Danny Lieberman wrote: Hetz Yes there is a good way - WebDav. What I don't like about webdav is that you can basically only access it through apache. Samba is a daemon that is designed to run as root and support multiple users. Apache is designed

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Geoffrey S. Mendelson: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:08:43AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Microsoft Services for UNIX. Free (as in beer, not open source). It is a reasonable choice. It has the disadvantage of being slow as a dead elephant swimming up a treakle creek, but over an internet

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שלישי, 12 ביולי 2005, 12:38, נכתב על ידי Geoffrey S. Mendelson: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:08:43AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: What I'm trying to do - is to make a permanent connection between the 2 servers. Microsoft Services for UNIX. Free (as in beer, not open source). Provides

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:38:00PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:08:43AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: What I'm trying to do - is to make a permanent connection between the 2 servers. Microsoft Services for UNIX. Free (as in beer, not open source). cygwin is

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, What I am trying to understand, Hetz, is WHAT kind of a permanent link do you want between the two machines? Replication? DRP? Failover? Quite simple... I need to do some video streaming for an audience who have no clue about Quicktime, Real Player, or even downloading/installing plugins.

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:58:31PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: It is a reasonable choice. It has the disadvantage of being slow as a dead elephant swimming up a treakle creek, but over an internet link that should not be too much of a disadvantage. SSH seems fine to me. I run it over 100mb

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:54:07PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Whats the difference between it and MSYS+MinGW? Sorry, no idea. If this helps, it's much more integrated than Cygwin, which IMHO implements a linux emulation layer on top Windows. In useage IMHO Cygwin is a halfway point between

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Lieberman
imho - both Samba and MS services for Unix unsuitable solutions for connecting systems running in two geographicly separated managed hosting facilities. Its an unrealistic solution because: a) latency b) tco of using vpns or fw vpns c) the average customer does not want to install any

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Lieberman
ssh requires installing WinSCP on the Windows boxes and logging in with a client side VPN in Youval's scenario Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:58:31PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: It is a reasonable choice. It has the disadvantage of being slow as a dead

MinGW [was Re: connectivity question]

2005-07-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 12:54, you wrote: ביום שלישי, 12 ביולי 2005, 12:38, נכתב על ידי Geoffrey S. Mendelson: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:08:43AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: What I'm trying to do - is to make a permanent connection between the 2 servers. Microsoft Services for UNIX.

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:31:26PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: So now the only solution that I see here is to purchase a minimum Win2003 package, put all the video clips in the Linux server and connect between them, so while the apache on the linux serves the pages, the Windows MMS serves the

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Lieberman
Tzafrir I totally agree - but it really depends on how willing the customer is to start installing and maintaining software - Webdav is elegant for the client who wants to stay away from VPN or FTP client installations - like my client :-) danny Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Lieberman
Geoff Fair enough. ssh is king. To summarize the thread - the Windows to Linux connection over the WAN has a few options ssh - requires MS services for Unix on the Windows boxes, secure, strong authentication, good for transferring large files, or large numbers of files over the WAN Webdav

Re: MinGW [was Re: connectivity question]

2005-07-12 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שלישי, 12 ביולי 2005, 13:51, נכתב על ידי Shlomi Fish: Whats the difference between it and MSYS+MinGW? it = MS Services for UNIX Well, MinGW stands for Minimal GNU for Win32. It's basically a port of the compiler and other compilation tool-chain, so it will run on Win32, but without

RE: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Ohad.Levy
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ehud Karni Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: connectivity question On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:42:55 +0200, Danny Lieberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:30:56PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:02:40PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Are you looking for an ssh client or server? There are a number of good ssh clients for windows. some are based on openssh. There is also putty. And

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:53:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about SSH tunnel with pptp? a. pptp is a generic way to tunnel ppp over IP. You can plug in encryption. Why tunnel it on top of ssh? b. tunneling on top of TCP is generally a bad idea c. pptp has only the control