[ale] secure access to samba share

[Geoffrey]

Robert A. Wicks wrote:
> I assume the laptop will be at different locations? In other words, you 
> could not not set up iptables to only allow a specific IP address 
> access?

Exactly.

> I think SSH would be the most secure way. Set up a putty session 
> with a private key and forward port 445 from your remote machine to your 
> local machine. You will have to have sharing disabled on the laptop so 
> that port 445 is not already in use when you do your port forwarding.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

> 
> Robert A. Wicks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 9:00 pm
> Subject: Re: [ale] secure access to samba share
> 
> Robert A. Wicks wrote:
>> Or you could set up OpenVPN. As far as simple, I'd go with SSH. Are you 
>> accessing the share with Windows? If you go through the effort to set up 
>> OpenVPN, you will have a solution for pretty much anything you run on 
>> your home network, so you may want to consider it.
> 
> Yeah, it's a windows laptop that's needs to access the share.  Not mine, 
> I don't do windows. ;)
> 
>> 
>> Robert A. Wicks
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com <mailto:brian at polibyte.com>>
>> To: ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>
>> Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 8:27 pm
>> Subject: Re: [ale] secure access to samba share
>> 
>> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 20:20 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> Anyone know of a secure way to access a Samba share over the internet?
>> 
>> An ssh tunnel?
>> 
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Samba-with-SSH/
>> 
>> -Brian
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