Well you can always route other ports through a SSH connection for a poor
man's VPN. I certainly wouldn't suggest leaving them open floating about the
net tho.
-Joe
On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:06 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> I'll have a look at it, but I already tried to configure "filters
> (netbios)" on the router, which was not very successfull :-(
> I think your are pointing in the right direction checking netbios
> availability through the router's WAN.
>
> Sure, I'm not going to invite the whole world to have a closer look into
> the linux machine. It's just a first step to get more linux practice:
> what can be done, what are the risks, are there alternatives....
>
> WAN Samba access was a first, primitive idea for sharing documents
> through the internet. I would like to end in installing an CVS server in
> connection with a VPN to secure the access.
>
> Thanks,
> Carsten
>
> Joe wrote:
> > Quite often household/soho routers block netbios requests.
> > This usually can be disabled in the router's setup.
> > However I would suggest that the idea that you or noone else can access
> > samba/netbios from the internet is a very very GOOD thing.
> > But if you are willing to accept the risks involved and have a need to
> > access them from outside just check very carefully through your router's
> > setup as you'll probabaly find that it is intentionally blocking netbios.
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> > On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote:
> >>Hi Joe,
> >>yes, every request is forwarded to the IP address of the linux box.
> >>yes, I can access e.g. apache and vnc server.
> >>yes, this is my situation.
> >>
> >>THX,
> >>Carsten
> >>
> >>Joe wrote:
> >>>Let me get this striaght...
> >>>You have your router set to forward (for external connections from the
> >>>internet) the netbios ports (among other ports) to your linux box
> >>> running samba.
> >>>Also you can access other services running on the linux box via the
> >>>internet. Is this a correct assesment of your situation?
> >>>
> >>>-Joe
> >>>
> >>>On Thursday 26 September 2002 02:16 pm, you wrote:
> >>>>Carsten Dannat wrote:
> >>>>>Hi Ben,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Just to clarify, do I understand correctly that your Win2k machine
> >>>>>> CAN see the shares when connected by wire, but NOT when wireless?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Win2K can see the shares even when connected wireless.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>You mentioned port forwarding. Do both machines have private IP
> >>>>>>addresses?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>The Linux Server has assigned a stattic IP address 129.168.xxx.yyy and
> >>>>>the Win2K laptop receives a dynamic IP address from the routers's DHCP
> >>>>>server.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Are the shares out on the Internet somewhere? Perhaps you could try
> >>>>>>setting up a share on your Win2k machine and making sure that your
> >>>>>>Linux machine can see and use them, and vice versa.
> >>>>
> >>>>I shared a directory on my Win2k machine, but the Linux machine is not
> >>>>able to browse the local network at all (using Konquerer, I get the
> >>>>response -> "could not connect to host localhost").
> >>>>
> >>>>I can ping from my Win2K box to the Linux machine using the IP address
> >>>>or the name, but I can't ping from the Linux machine to the Win2K
> >>>>machine using the Win2K'2 computer name, only the IP address works.
> >>>>
> >>>>In the file /etc/resolv.conf I have two nameserver entries: One is
> >>>>assigned by Roadrunner, the other is the IP address of the Netgear
> >>>> MR314 router.
> >>>>
> >>>>Mmmmhhh ???
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Carsten
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