Mapping remote linux drive in windows...

Sat Sep 6 06:29:56 CDT 2003

On Friday 05 September 2003 2:54 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:
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> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:<br>
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>   <pre wrap="">On Thursday 04 September 2003 8:02 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:
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>     <pre wrap="">If you're going to try to use a Samba link over the
> Internet, you _have_ to set up VPN or do some sort of tunneling. I wouldn't
> know where to begin to approach that problem. I've heard that getting VPN
> to work between Windows and Linux is a pain in the ass.&lt;br&gt;
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> Of course, it is possible to put an open Samba server/share on the
> internet, and rely on Samba's authentication.  Not that I would recommend
> it.
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> VPN is very well standardised, and I've had no trouble serving it or
> passing it through firewalls.
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> <p>We not talking about firewalls. If you had actually read my simple,
> single paragraph....

Sorry, it probably got lost in all the idiotic Microsoft Markup.

As I said clearly (in plain ASCII), I have had no problem setting up VPN 
between Linux and MS machines - it's never been an issue, it just worked.