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

[Paul Hardacre]

At 09:40 07/09/2001, Kath wrote:

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

I'm sure you probably could but you may encounter issues with windows not 
actually wanting to connect to anything other than 137 - 139 :/ I think you 
can tell smbclient under linux to connect to a different port but I'm not 
so sure on windows :(

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

I'm not sure what the situation with NFS clients for Windows is.. I know 
there was one, PCNFS, but I believe that was a commercial product and 
required a rpc.pcnfsd rather than rpc.nfsd. But I could be wrong on that 
one.. Might be worth investigating..

Sorry I couldn't be more help on that one :/

Let me know if ya find a good solution cos I could do with one here, I just 
chug along with FTP with the small number of updates we get..

Paul

>----- 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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