Re: [MLUG] Accessing Bengal from home LAN

[Suman Kanuganti <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Is there a good, secure way to do this?  

When you are connected to the mu network through vpn, you are as secure
as a computer on mu network. Info on vpn:
http://www.vpnc.org/vpn-technologies.html

Once connected, mounting samba shares is easy. Justin posted vpn client
for linux here: 
https://jscan.iats.missouri.edu/~mcnuttj/vpnclient-linux-4.0.4.B-k9.tar.gz


Suman K

> I've tried shfs (mounts files 
> using SSH) and SMB-tunneled-over-SSH.  Problem is, my connection will 
> sometimes go down and then things don't work until I manually umount -l 
> and remount.  (both Mediacom and my NAT-router seem to drop connections 
> after a while).  
> 
> Would VPN stuff allow me to use SMB in a secure way?  Is there a "right 
> way" to do this?
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
> EMAIL:PROTECTED

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