[nycbug-talk] Fwd: RE: need help asap, will pay, ms vpn client

[Mikel King]

George Georgalis wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:10:51PM -0500, Okan Demirmen wrote:
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>>On Wed 2005.03.16 at 17:45 -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
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>>>My preliminary was to do tcp only port forwarding of said ports to a box
>>>behind it running samba. The client is not able to "browse" discover the
>>>share, but if the (gateway) hostname, user and password (samba host)
>>>is specified, the client can mount user homes from the samba server
>>>through the firewall via tcp only (the protocol calls for tcp and udp
>>>137,138,139).
>>>
>>>This means, a roaming windows client can setup (putty) ssh -R tunnels to
>>>a remote gateway which allows for smb connections from localhost to the
>>>private smbserver. So the roaming client can specify, via "netuse" the
>>>gateway as the location of their shares and mount the protected samba
>>>share through the encrypted tunnel.
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>>>
>>this may not be much help to your issue, but if are limiting your
>>roaming clients to smb shares, why even use smb? win2k and above,
>>osx, and any unix can do webdav. easy to setup on the samba server.
>>and seemless to the client - looks like a smb share....and all on
>>one port - 80 (and/or 443).
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>443/htpasswd/mod_dav is on the gen two plan. I've never build apache2,
>and I can expect some trial and error with both apache2 and mod_dav,
>but I've got a set of other things that don't give me time in the day
>to, well you know, and this is a no mistakes, regulated production
>environment.
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>Anybody want to demo mod_dav and/or write up a cheat sheet? I spent
>:20 trying to get apache21 to build on DFLY but there is something
>wrong with perl, so I've never had 2.1 up at all...
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>// George
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I've set up dav before, and from what I recall the docs on apache's site 
were pretty straight forward, but I do remember there were some missing 
elements, I just don't recall if it was to do with php or dav. I'll poll 
my notes and see if it merits a DN article, is that a good idea?

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