anakkk Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 hi there, is there anyway to setup a samba and enable it so that people can access from home? thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcguy87 Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 11, 2008 MVC Share Posted June 11, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcguy87 Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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