Jason,
Yes, running smb across the WAN is odd. ;) However, it works... I also run FTP/SFTP, WebDAV, SSH (of course) and I used to run Netatalk... I strongly prefer people use SFTP or scp for file transfers, and WebDAV second to that... but this guy specifically asked to "map a network drive under windows" and Samba was the only tool I was aware of that could do that. From my brief research, the passwords are not very well encrypted when they are sent across the net (can anyone confirm/deny this?), but then again, FTP passwords aren't encrypted at all... so... Probably not the most effective or secure solution, but it's what I'm being paid for ;)
What is fish?
-Josh
On Sep 16, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Jason Tower wrote:
i don't know about monitoring by process, but monitoring by port number should be possible. with samba that would be ports 137-139, check /etc/services for a complete list.
so, you're running smb across the wan? that sounds...odd. 99% of the time smb is used only on a lan, there are probably better methods for sharing files across the net. ftp, http, fish, and so on. take a look at http://bytehoard.org/ as well.
jason
On Thursday 16 September 2004 09:37, Joshua Gitlin wrote:--Hey TriLUG,
I just installed Samba on a server for a potential client looking for a custom hosting solution. He wanted his employees to be able to map network drives under windows from any location, but didn't want to have to deal with managing a server... so Samba seemed to me to be the best (or maybe the only?) option. Anyway. I have a limited amount of bandwidth on this server, and I sold this guy a specific portion of that... trouble is, I don't know f any way to monitor the bandwidth that just one process uses... or any way to break down the bandwidth on my server by process... much less any way to limit the amount of bandwidth that the Samba server can use, or even limit the amount of bandwidth his specific user can use... ANy thoughts on how to do any of these things?
Thanks Guys!
-Josh
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