samba across internet


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hi there,

is there anyway to setup a samba and enable it so that people can access from home?

thank you

You may want to look into more elegant VPN solutions.

However, you will need to open the following ports through both your software firewall (probably iptables) and your router/firewall device:

135 UDP/TCP

137 UDP/TCP

138 UDP/TCP

139 UDP/TCP

445 UDP/TCP

you can test the connection on a remote computer by opening nautilus and typing:

smb://myuser@10.10.10.10

And i believe you can access it from a windows machine by opening explorer and typing:

\\10.10.10.10

(Where 'myuser' is your samba username, and '10.10.10.10' is your IP address)

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You would not want to do this - for starters many a ISP are more than likely blocking the SMB ports due to the many many exploits that use those ports.

If you want users to access across the internet use FTP ;) Or as already suggested use a vpn.

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You would not want to do this - for starters many a ISP are more than likely blocking the SMB ports due to the many many exploits that use those ports.

If you want users to access across the internet use FTP ;) Or as already suggested use a vpn.

+1, and if you are going to be using FTP, you may want to consider SFTP.

It runs through the SSH daemon.

On Windows clients you can use winscp to access the SFTP server.

This is MUCH more secure then ftp, as the sessions are entirely encrypted.

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