[Techtalk] Internet File Sharing (No, not Napster) again

Kath kath at kathweb.net
Fri Sep 7 04:40:49 EST 2001


I think my university blocks 137-139 across the network.  Is it possible to
assign other ports to Samba?

What about NFS over an SSH tunnel or something techie sounding like that? :D

- k

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hardacre" <paul.hardacre at btinternet.com>
To: "Kath" <kath at kathweb.net>; <techtalk at linuxchix.simegen.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Internet File Sharing (No, not Napster) again


> At 07:59 07/09/2001, Kath wrote:
>
> >With a Windows client, would there be anyway to mount a Linux drive
> >(specifically one directory) over the internet such that it would be like
> >another hard drive and folder (so it would be like you are editting a
> >local file, but the changes are done in real time to the server) on your
> >machine.
> >
> >Reason is, I use UltraDev4 and PHPEd for my development and a Linux based
> >server.  FTP is rather annoying when deploying changes rapidly, plus
> >disconnects and the like.
>
> One word springs to mind, Samba. Allows linux to do windows-like
> file/printer sharing, you can map a network drive just like you do to an
NT
> server, etc.
>
> Have a look at www.samba.org for downloads/documentation/etc. Usually
comes
> as standard with most Linux distros so installation shouldn't be too bad.
>
> It would certainly be the most seamless solution, but does have it's
> security problems if you're running it on an internet connected server,
> you'd want to use it's access controls to disallow connections from
> anything outside your local subnet, etc.
>
> >Any ideas?  HOWTOs?
>
> There's possibly a HOWTO on samba at linuxdoc though I'm not sure on that
> one. The docs are pretty good though.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Paul
>





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